Who offers server-free backup products?
I think you’ll find that any backup product that’s aiming at the enterprise, will offer server-free backup. If a vendor doesn’t offer server-free backup they either aren’t aiming at the enterprise or they aren’t doing it very well. So, if you are the type of company that wants server-free backup, then you should look at an enterprise backup product. Are there any standards for server-free or LAN-free backup? Not so much. Each of the ISVs, the independent software vendors, have their own way of talking to the disk vendors. And each disk vendor has their way of talking to the ISVs. So, if you are an ISV that plans to support server-free backup, there’s no single API for you to write to. So, generally, an ISV has to decide which of the OEMs they are going to support. Most start with the obvious two or three and then the others as the market dictates. While its really important for the people that need it, the people that need it are definitely in the minority. The market share for server-
