Bocada Hosts Webinar on Transformational Data Protection Service Management Model

KIRKLAND, Wash., March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Bocada, Inc., the world's leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, today announced that it will host a one-hour webinar, in conjunction with leading market analyst George Crump of Storage Switzerland to discuss the benefits of applying ITSM-like best practices and processes to delivering data protection services on March 24 at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

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Bocada will discuss benefits of its transformational DPSM model and review exciting features of its next-generation, purpose-built DPSM solution -- Bocada Prism.  Crump will share his expertise in reviewing how organizations that apply ITSM initiatives with the DPSM model can help lower overall operational costs, increase customer satisfaction, ensure recoverability, minimize the cost of downtime, better align IT with business goals and achieve significant process improvements.

"Organizations are constantly striving for a better way to meet business objectives and drive customer satisfaction while at the same time minimizing complexity and reducing management headaches related to data protection management," said Crump.  "Attendees of this webinar will learn why it is necessary to evolve their disparate data protection tasks into an efficient business process that drives down costs and increases confidence in the organizations ability to recover."

The Webinar will show first hand how unique and powerful Bocada's DPSM process is in the data protection space by intelligently applying a multi-phased model to improve delivery and reduce costs, providing a new standard for data protection services with Bocada Prism.

"The webinar is ideal for any member of an IT organization that has adopted or plans to adopt ITSM initiatives, is concerned about delivering against SLAs and needs to deliver results to internal or external customers while lowering overall costs," said Nancy Hurley, CEO of Bocada. "We're pleased that George can join us to provide his unique insight into ways that organizations can meet business goals and improve operational efficiencies though the adoption of the DPSM model.  We look forward to providing an insightful briefing."

Bocada has leveraged years of customer experiences to create a workflow-driven, intelligent-analysis solution with built-in SLA impact analysis, change tracking and trend analysis, and a searchable knowledge base to ensure organizations can improve overall service delivery. Bocada Prism is a completely agentless solution that enables annotation and knowledge transfer with the broadest heterogeneous support.  Individuals interested in registering for the webinar can visit http://partner.bocada.com/invites/emailer1.html.

About Bocada

Bocada provides market leading data protection service management solutions to transform the way companies deliver data protection services to achieve greater business and IT alignment, maximize operational efficiency, minimize risk and increase customer satisfaction. Based on patented, agent-less technology, Bocada solutions deploy rapidly and scale to meet the demands of the largest multi-vendor data protection environments. Over 500 enterprise organizations more effectively manage over 300,000 backup clients and servers with Bocada solutions. Headquartered in Kirkland, Washington, Bocada is privately held and funded by leading venture investors. For more information visit: www.bocada.com.

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