Figuring out how to move data to a backup facility, in what form and deciding where that facility should be means balancing cost, risk level, how fast you want to recover lost data and how much data you can afford to lose.
When it comes to storage technology, tape and disk have their advantages and shortcomings, but disk has won because, in a nutshell, tape is fast, but disk is quick.
Despite the many advantages of disk storage for backing up data, shipments of tape storage keep growing because for some jobs, tape is best.
Backup and recovery done efficiently require use of multiple backup levels carefully thought out so a full backup isn’t needed as often if incremental and differential backups are properly planned.
By eliminating redundant blocks of data within a dataset – deduplication – enterprises can reduce the size of backups 90-99%.
Backing up and archiving data have distinct functions, and not recognizing that it’s important to have both can lead to access problems and even legal troubles.
The General Data Protection Regulation, also known as the GDPR, is going into effect on May 25th – and your company is probably not ready. There is some basic news, some good news, some not so good news and some scary news. Let’s take a l
Multiple data points show a steady decline in the use of tape for backup and recovery purposes, but why is that? There are a lot of reasons, many of which are justified, and some of which are not.
