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 ...

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 ...

DPX 4.14 brings simplified web-based tape library management, automated event cleanup, and smarter job scheduling to simplify long-term data protection and strengthen hybrid backup strategies.

<p>New Continuous Disk Backup Functionality Delivers Rapid Recovery with Reduced Data Loss and Minimal Downtime to Help Customers Achieve RPO and RTO</p> <p>Sydney, Australia – 30 May, ...

Data Domain announced this week virtual tape library options for its series of disk-based backup appliances. The company added virtual tape library emulation to its DD400 Enterprise Series Data Domain ...

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 ...

EMC Corp. on Monday will announce a new line of storage arrays designed to let customers replace tape-based backup systems with faster disk-based devices. The new line, called the Clariion Disk ...

Contrary to popular belief, tape is far from dead, said Scott Winslow, president of Winslow Technology Group, a solution provider in Boston. However, the role tape plays is changing as more customers ...

The world of backup reporting is getting larger with the latest releases of software from WysDM and EMC. WysDM introduced WysDM for Disk last week and EMC, which OEMs WysDM, unveiled the latest ...

The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question.