Why CDP is Taking over at MSPs

 

(DCIG) - One of the privileges I get in being contracted to do blogging is that I get to speak to customers to which others rarely get access. One set of customers that I frequently speak with are managed service providers (MSPs) and discuss with them what technologies that they are having success with in their data centers. So this is why I can say with a high degree of certainty that continuous data protection (CDP) is taking over within their data centers and is shaping up to have a high impact as enterprise organizations look to move their applications and application data into the cloud.

CDP is an advanced form of asynchronous replication software that was heralded as recently as a few years ago as the next generation of data protection and it was believed at that time that every enterprise backup software product was going to need it "or else".

Since then about every enterprise backup software product (CommVault Simpana, EMC NetWorker, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Symantec NetBackup) added some form of CDP to their product portfolio. Yet, in my conversations with them, CDP has not become the game changing technology in their portfolios that many thought it was going to be. Deduplication instead claimed that distinction.

But that does not mean CDP has been left for dead. Rather it has found a new and abundant life in the data centers of MSPs. Here is why that appears to be the case.

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