Tim Butchart - SEPATON

At SEPATON there is no mystery in our ability to deliver robust data protection platforms that are specifically designed for the needs of large enterprises. Our products blow the doors off of the competition because we regularly talk to our customers and hear precisely the challenges they face and require our help in overcoming.

In November 2011 we conducted a survey of this target market to gain a snapshot of exactly how day-to-day life in an enterprise data center was shaping up. By talking to the people at the sharp-end of our industry, we knew we could be certain that our technology would continue to address the individual pain-points that most commonly affect the data protection community we strive to help.

Our ‘British Data Protection Survey’ questioned senior UK storage managers with responsibility to protect at least 100 terabytes of critical data for their organizations. We heard professionals telling us that they felt undervalued, craved more support from senior management and were worried over whether they had the resources needed to meet business requirements.

Key information gained through the survey included:
• The greatest business challenges that data managers feel they need to overcome are: meeting backup windows through faster performance (70%); better protection for business-critical apps (52%); higher levels of data security (52%); and streamlining business processes (46%)
• A worrying 80% of enterprise data storage managers believe that senior management underestimates the importance of data protection, despite just 12% believing that is preventing them meeting business requirements
• Just 2% are concerned that a lack of funds is forcing them short of regulatory requirements, despite the same percentage saying that they found it easy to generate additional budget
• Experience topped the list of desirable skills in a data manager (76%), ahead of awareness of emerging technologies (62%), communications skills (54%) and attention to detail (54%)

Both backup and restore performance obviously remain significant issues for data protection managers working at UK’s largest enterprise businesses. But why not tell us your real-world experiences and opinions so that we can help you further with targeted products and services? The survey is actually an on-going review of the UK data protection market, which you can complete yourself online, here.

For full details of our ‘British Data Protection Survey’, please drop a mail to: sepaton@prompt-communications.com

At SEPATON, we understand the real data protection challenges that our customers have to face every day.

Our solutions are specifically designed for large enterprises that need to able to rely completely on their ability to restore data from massive volumes of backed up data without question. Performance, scalability, management and reliability are our key values.

That is why when some other vendors’ choose to focus on the detail of backup speed, we know that when it comes to efficient data storage and management, it’s really the restore that matters to you the most.

To prove that our values are in-tune with your immediate needs, we’ve put together a paper which provides a rapid view of ‘How to Prioritize and Optimize the Restore’. You can download it right away.

Here at SEPATON we know that if your organization should be unfortunate enough to suffer a dramatic failure, your first concern will be maintaining business continuity. You’ll find no consolation in the speed of the previous day’s backup, only relief that you had the foresight to deploy a storage infrastructure designed first and foremost to restore process and application data to your business as rapidly as possible.

Trust your own instincts and put the restore at the top of your data protection agenda.
Download our industry how-to paper ‘How to Prioritize and Optimize the Restore’, today.