Bocada Resolves to Help Customers Better Manage Their Data Protection Operations in 2012

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Jan 24, 2012, 08:30 ET

KIRKLAND, Wash., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- For companies that may have gotten away from a healthy backup management routine, that leaves them vulnerable to the loss of business-critical information, Bocada Inc., the world's leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model, is offering special incentives to organizations that run a 30 day Health Check analysis during the first quarter of 2012 in order to validate their virtual or physical backup operations and ensure that the start the new year begins in a positive direction.

Bocada recommends a health check/assessment as the initial phase of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model to help reveal the true effectiveness of an organization's data protection environment, enable effective problem management by pinpointing, diagnosing and eliminating trouble spots, and identifying opportunities for improvements. Doing an annual assessment at the start of each year is an ideal best practices approach to determining the health of an organization's backup environment and ensures that backup policies are fully aligned with business policies, say DPSM experts.

"January is a traditional time for individuals to take stock of their well-being and health and a springboard for taking corrective actions to ensure that any bad habits they may have developed throughout the previous year are rectified," said Ralph Wynn, Bocada's Product Marketing Manager. "The same should hold true for organizations. When was the last time their backup infrastructure had a checkup? If it's been too long or they can't remember, they should make a resolution to start proactively implementing a standard set of operational processes in order to ensure successful delivery of backup services while driving down operational costs. Adopting a healthy approach to data management through the DPSM model is an ideal way to achieve these goals and help keep more serious health crises away throughout the upcoming year."

In order to give customers more incentive to kick start the DPSM process in the New Year, Bocada will offer Health Check assistance at no charge, helping users interpret the results of running a 30 day analysis with either Bocada Prism or Bocada Vision in their environments. In addition, users that sign up before the end of February will qualify for special promotional discounts.

Bocada Vision is available as a standalone module within the Bocada Prism family, a service management platform purpose built to help organizations move through the DPSM process, a multi-phase set of best practices to ensure cost-effective delivery of data protection services to customers. Bocada leveraged years of customer experiences to create a workflow-driven, intelligent analysis solution with built in SLA impact analysis, change tracking, trend analysis and a searchable knowledge base to ensure organizations can meet business goals and improve operational efficiencies. When used over an extended period of time, Prism and Vision provide a historical overview of the backup environment to see if it is operating the way it should be. This information is vital in addressing whether changes need to be made, the architecture needs updating, and what data is readily available, as well as to forecast future growth.

For more information about the benefits of implementing DPSM and how a health check/assessment is an ideal way to start off the New Year, visit http://www.bocada.com/dpsm/ To register for a free test drive of Bocada Data Protection Management solutions, visit http://www.bocada.com/test-drive/

About Bocada
Bocada is a VMware Elite Partner, providing 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. Picking up where other backup software companies stop, Bocada software monitors and creates in-depth reports for transparency and accountability and empowers users to address any failures in their data protection process. Hundreds of enterprise organizations more effectively manage over 600,000 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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