A report by 451 Research says Zetta's WAN-optimization techniques translate into better performance than most of its rivals. The analyst notes that Zetta.net’s enterprise-grade cloud backup and disaster recovery solution is the only solution that does not require a hardware appliance.
The report explains that Zetta.net's performance edge comes, in part, because of the company’s expertise in Internet technology. By contrast, many of its rivals began as on-premise backup vendors and grew into the online side of offsite backup and recovery.
As a result of Zetta.net's focus on Internet performance, WAN-optimized technology is built into the solution for faster backup and recovery. Many of Zetta.net's customers have hundreds of TBs of production capacity and some are backing up and recovering as much as 5TB per day.
While recovery speed is critical for the firm, tape backup had inherent complexity that created more issues for backup and recovery than it solved, causing delays that could endanger business activities.
Among hybrid cloud backup vendors, the report points out, Zetta.net is virtually the only software-only vendor. "Against the other vendors in the hybrid cloud backup arena, Zetta's primary differentiators are speed and its software-only approach, which, compared with appliance-based alternatives, can translate into lower costs," said David Simpson, Senior Storage Analyst at 451 Research.
In addition to reduced costs for customers, Zetta.net's appliance-free approach is an advantage to managed service providers (MSPs) because it requires less management and maintenance. MSPs benefit from a low cost solution that does not require any new hardware to install – their customers can be up and running in minutes, with backups and data recovery performed from anywhere.
451 Commentary:
The hybrid cloud backup/recovery market is red hot, but it's difficult for many of the vendors in this space to differentiate. We think that Zetta has an edge here with two clear-cut differentiators: a proprietary file system (as opposed to the object stores that some other vendors use in their clouds) and WAN-optimization techniques that allow it to target larger backup capacities than most of its competitors. This, in turn, allows Zetta to go after higher-margin accounts. We also applaud the company's new messaging that is focused squarely on performance, because we think that performance is Zetta's key differentiator versus the hordes of other vendors crowding the hybrid cloud-backup market. In addition, we think the addition of a plug-in for backing up NetApp systems will help Zetta draw more resellers into its relatively small roster of channel partners.
Download “Zetta's software-only approach bucks the trend toward hybrid cloud backup appliances,” report by 451 Research.
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