Tape Backup Developments – Death-Defying or Simply Better?
Considered by some to be obsolescent, obsolete or virtually flat-lining, tape backup is still around. Even new hard drive technology and solid state storage cannot match the price point per terabyte stored. Now IBM and Fujifilm have pushed the envelope even further with new tape cartridge that can hold 154 terabytes of data. By comparison, […]
Validating your data backup plan
Having a plan for data backup as part of your disaster recovery strategy is the right thing to do, but it’s not the end of the story. Too many organisations have planned their data backups, only to find in situations of emergency that the backups were unavailable or insufficient. The reasons can be varied, but […]
Tape or Disk Backups? – Why not do Both?
Discussions about whether to go for disk or tape as a back-up medium are frequent, but there’s still no knock-out result one way or the other.