Gartner mages: And the Enterprise Archiving Magic Quadrant top spot goes to...

There's a new magic quadrant out. Gartner has awarded top position in enterprise archiving to – wait for it – HP, with Symantec second. Next up are three firms few have heard and at sixth spot is CommVault, rounding out the leaders' box. Why? The gnomes at Gartner say: "Enterprise information archiving offers IT managers in …

[frank ly]

No 'Also Ran' or 'Losers' box?

I wonder why not?

[BuckRogers]

Stubbing sucks

Managing a stubbing environment is like managing a ticking tbom... it's only a matter of time before something gets messed up and the pointers are no longer accurate which in turn causes the archive to be out of sync... and then booooom... full restores just to clear up that mess.

Just saying... wish there was something better than stubbing.

I liked the ARX solution from F5 but F5 decided to kill it... not the fault of the technology.. they just charged WAY too much for it.

[Camilla Smythe]

As an aside

Has anyone demonstrated that a Gartner Quadrant is worth the paper it is Quartered On beyond Self Procreation?

[Anonymous Coward]

Commvault don't lead because whilst their backup is very good, their archiving is pants - and that's being polite. It's resource hungry and doesn't scale well.

[R2D2-C3P0]

1st, 2nd, 3rd?

Surely the ranking should be on how high the company is (Execution), not how far right (Vision). Anyone can have a vision, but execution is more important methinks!