What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

My workplace has about 6TB of data in our weekly full backups, which we backup D2D2T and send offsite weekly. We have mostly Windows systems with about 70% virtualized with VMWare and Hyper-V. Since ...

GUEST OPINION: Today, information is one of the main engines of business, because the very existence of a company sometimes depends on the ability to store and process it. In this article, we will ...

Full Backup Window Fri9pm-Sunday Realistically looking at 24 hours to get all 55tb to tape. I am concerned with how many drives I will need, the network from drives to server, and the back-end disk to ...

Storage vendor Network Appliances (NetApp) launched what it calls a 'virtual tape' system on Monday that claims to offer the speed of disk with the affordability of tape. Two different models are ...

As data backup and recovery takes on increased importance, companies are moving from tape to new technologies. Compared to hot areas like security or wireless, data backup and restore may have seemed ...