From data backup to data intelligence

Research Objectives

Intelligent data management solutions and use cases are transforming the traditional data protection and storage spaces. As end-users continue on their digital transformation journeys, the need to efficiently reuse compliant data is adding data management challenges to an already complex IT infrastructure landscape. At the same time, significant business benefits can be derived from successful intelligent data management implementations.

In order to understand the benefits and challenges of IT initiatives in this space, establish the current state of deployments, identify gaps, and highlight future expectations, ESG surveyed 360 IT professionals at organizations with 250 or more employees in North America (US and Canada) personally responsible for data protection and data management technology decisions for their organization. This research aimed to understand IT professionals’ grasp of and sentiment toward intelligent data management, including the identification of the most successful business and technical use cases for data reuse.

This study sought to:

• Identify features and buying differentiators of intelligent data management solutions.
• Assess IT professionals’ understanding of and sentiment toward data management
• Explore key technology attributes of successful intelligent data management solutions.
• Determine the infrastructure topologies that organizations deploy to support intelligent data management strategies.