If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

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 ...

The once-thriving storage tape business has been knocked out of the running as the media of choice for backing up data, but it is expected to remain the primary technology for use in long-term data ...

We used Symantec’s BackupExec 11d running on a Windows 2003 server to back up 2TB of data from a 2Gbps storage system to each device. We backed up the same data a second time, and ran a script that ...

Every company has a need to back up their critical data in case their original is lost or corrupted. This need of archiving gave birth to the external data storage industry. Many leading industrial ...

Despite its relatively slow speed and overall bulkiness, tape has its strengths. After all, it’s inexpensive compared with most disks, it’s portable and has been used in data centers for years. Still, ...

I guess we have to look at disaster recovery, when it comes to tapes, in order of priorities. So, if we're talking about your most critical applications nowadays -- your most critical data -- tape ...

Kent-based construction design consultancy Frankham Group has ditched tape-based backup and deployed Rubrik appliances in a move that has seen it slash data restores from days to hours and gain the ...

Disk-based backup is becoming increasingly popular, thanks to the ever-growing, gigantic amounts of company data that needs protection combined with inexpensive, large-capacity disk arrays. An array ...

To all companies, data is a vital resource for business operations. Protecting data from corruption, user error, hardware failure, theft or site disaster is widely recognized to be a critical ...