The top article(s) for March related to the highly successful NetWorker Usage survey run. With over 200 respondents, this survey asked questions covering:
- NetWorker server operating system types and versions
- Storage node operating system types and versions
- Number of clients backed up
- Client operating system types
- Modules used
- Open source databases in use
The results were quite interesting; with over 65% of respondents using open source databases in their environments, it perhaps most a clear message to EMC that support for some form of backup integration with these modules are important, something I was lucky enough to be able to speak directly to product management about last week as well.
It also spoke clearly to EMC’s competitors that FUD regarding NetWorker’s place in enterprise backup is just that. With a high percentage of respondents reporting using NetWorker to backup environments of 500+ clients, NetWorker is not (nor was it ever) a “small” backup product. It’s there in major enterprises ensuring that they stay up and running.
You can download the survey report from here.