This week Jason Buffington of Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) posted a nice video blog (I really like this format). In the blog, Jason talks about how non-IT people tend to have very high expectations of the IT group, envisioning a specialist in every area. As we know, at most companies IT is run by "generalists" who are expected to simply "do it all" (love the graphic).
Specifically speaking to mid-market IT, Jason details out the data protection challenges that they face including:
Only by having a data protection plan can you start shopping for data protection technologies. That data protection plan should:
Jason says that the data protection gear that the mid-market uses ...
What the mid-market also needs is a data protection solution that is "easy":
Coming from a mid-market enterprise myself, I couldn't agree with Jason's points more. Recently, I've been testing Unitrend's enterprise backup in my lab environment and, from my analysis, it covers all of Jason's recommendations for what "the ideal midmarket" backup solution should provide. To learn more about Unitrends Enterprise Backup and try it for yourself, click here. Also, for more information on Unitrends checkout my other recent blog - Top 10 Things You Didn't Know About Unitrends Enterprise Backup.
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