13 Quotes by Brian Babineau

We've seen a ton of archiving companies developing data-protection technologies during the last six months, ... We've seen a lot of search engine companies looking at ways to access this information too.

Maintaining optimal performance of enterprise applications has become a business-critical initiative for today's enterprises. Comprehensive application performance management solutions, like Symantec i3 7.5, help organizations improve business efficiency and mitigate costs by quickly identifying and resolving potential bottlenecks within an application infrastructure.

Because of this, organizations are deploying tiered storage and sophisticated software tools to efficiently manage their data and resources. Policy-based movement of data throughout its lifecycle and off-site archiving can help companies improve performance while reducing operational and storage costs.

I think customers are a bit confused over the difference between a lot of snapshots and continuous data protection.

People are just starting to get their toes wet in this technology. They haven't deployed it full-fledged across the entire application infrastructure.

When a big incumbent like Microsoft gets into the data protection game with a generally available product, the vendors that have had solutions in that space for a number of years are throwing their hats in the ring, ... Most of the data protection and backup software companies are announcing something next week that has Microsoft integration capabilities.

The good news is that the scientists and the research centers love taking risks for the next new thing. The problem is that as a stand-alone market, it's not a huge opportunity.

We've got 80 percent of them saying don't know much about it, but 50 percent of those saying if Microsoft had disk-based backup product, they would use it. You can see the depth of branding and marketing muscle Microsoft can drag along with their product.

Users need to make data available to both new and old applications, especially while migrating to a new environment. Archiving in XML is a good way to do that.