'Virtualization Review' gives Bocada Vision high marks for VM Data Protection Service Management

KIRKLAND, Wash., Aug. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The current issue of Virtualization Review has high praise for Bocada Vision, a groundbreaking solution focused on addressing the complexities of backup and recovery in virtual environments from Bocada Inc., the world's leading provider of data protection management software and the creator of the Data Protection Service Management (DPSM) model.

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Reviewer Logan Harbaugh put Bocada Vision through its paces to test VM backup and restore success, performance, capacity use, reporting, and other functions.

"With broad backup application support and excellent integration with vCenter and leading virtual backup solutions, Vision provides as much information on backups, restores, replication and snapshots as any administrator might want," said Harbaugh. "Vision gives administrators the tools to effectively analyze all VM data protection activity in their environment, which will significantly reduce administrative efforts and improve operations." The review praised the product's advanced management tools including health checks, policy management, SLA management, problem management, auditing, change management and capacity planning.

"We thank Mr. Harbaugh and Virtualization Review magazine for their help in demonstrating how Bocada Vision can help overcome the challenges of backup in VMware environments and reduce costs, improve satisfaction and achieve operational excellence," said Nancy Hurley Bocada CEO. "This thorough review provides administrators with much food for thought in how to manage their VM backups, assure  recoverability and reduce costs."

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 or the integrated solution for physical and virtual environments, vpConnect, provide a historical overview of data protection activity across the environment to help ensure operational excellence.

Virtualization Review from the 1105 Enterprise Computing Group (ECG) is the independent guide to the products, vendors, issues and techniques that are transforming IT through virtualization. Virtualization Review leads the industry as the only print publication specifically targeting IT professionals embracing virtualization technology. Virtualization Review reaches 40,000 senior-level IT management and C-suite executives in large U.S. organizations, which have adopted virtualization more aggressively than small- and medium-size businesses. Readers include senior-level system administrators, who in many ways are key decision drivers when implementing leading-edge business technologies.

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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