Data Protection Appliances are better than PBBAs

Too many folks categorize every blinky-light box that can be part of a data protection solution as a "Purpose Built Backup Appliance" or PBBA.

But the market isn’t just a bunch of apples with an orange or two mixed in, data protection appliances (DPAs) can be apples, oranges, bananas and cherries — but if you lump them all together, all you have is a fruit salad.

So, let’s reset the term to understand the market:

  • "Backup" alone isn’t enough — so call the all-encompassing category what it should be delivering = "Data Protection"
  • And there isn’t just one kind of appliance, there are at least four:
    • (real) Backup Appliances
    • Storage / Deduplication Appliances
    • Cloud-Gateway Appliances
    • Failover Appliances

Check out this video to see how I look at Data Protection Appliances:

As always, thanks for watching

[Originally posted on ESG’s Technical Optimist.com]

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