{"id":1862,"date":"2016-11-17T08:44:49","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T13:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/?p=1862"},"modified":"2016-11-17T08:44:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T13:44:49","slug":"check-out-gartners-new-critical-capabilities-report-disaster-recovery-as-a-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/backup-disaster-recovery\/check-out-gartners-new-critical-capabilities-report-disaster-recovery-as-a-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Out Gartner’s New Critical Capabilities Report: Disaster Recovery as a Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CheckWhile the Magic quadrant<\/a> is great for identifying which vendor is on top in terms of market share and generalized capabilities, the Critical Capabilities Report give a more definitive take on who\u2019s on top consistently and why they are there. This year, Gartner<\/a> has identified seven critical capabilities<\/a> and four use cases with which to assess Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offerings from 20 service providers.<\/p>\n

What is the Critical Capabilities report?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gartner defines Critical capabilities<\/em> as, \u201cattributes that differentiate products\/services in a class in terms of their quality and performance.” For disaster recovery as a service,\u00a0that means VM availability, architecture flexibility, security and compliance, user management, enterprise integration, automation and DevOps enablement, scalability, and big data enablement.<\/p>\n

Gartner rates each vendor\u2019s product or service on a five-point (five points being best) scale in terms of how well it delivers each capability.<\/p>\n

Critical Capabilities reports\u00a0include comparison graphs for each use case, along with in-depth descriptions of each solution based on the various points of comparison.<\/p>\n

Buyer’s Guide<\/strong><\/p>\n

Additionally, buyers looking for a straight forward, side-by-side look at what each solution provides should check out the new\u00a02016 Solutions Review Backup and Disaster Recovery\u00a0Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a> to get a little more background information on today\u2019s top 24 cloud service providers (CSPs).<\/p>\n

I advise starting with the Magic Quadrant to make a shortlist of the top-ranked solutions in mind, then using \u00a0the Solutions Review Buyer\u2019s Guide<\/a> to figure out what backup\u00a0capabilities each\u00a0solution\u00a0provides and what key features they offer. From there, decide which capabilities are important to you and consult the Critical Capabilities Report to eliminate solutions that don\u2019t have the capabilities you need.<\/p>\n

Together, these three documents can cut a lot of time and effort out of the decision-making process, letting buyers skip tedious internet searches and research on backup and Recovery\u00a0platforms and solutions that will never meet their needs.<\/p>\n

From the Report<\/strong><\/p>\n

Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gartner predicts that by 2018, the number of organizations using disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) will exceed the number of organizations using traditional, syndicated recovery services.\u00a0<\/span>By 2018, 20% of enterprises with a minimum of 5,000 employees will be failing over the operation of one or more production applications to DRaaS, infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or cloud-enabled managed hosting.<\/span><\/p>\n

Critical Capabilities Key Findings:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n