LTO-5, D2T, D2D, and D2D2x Backup
Quantum announced recently that they were releasing the first tape products based on the fifth generation of Linear Tape-Open technology (LTO-5.) Thus the long wait of many tape backup users for LTO-5...
View ArticleData Loss Shortcuts: Ignore Hardware Failure
[Preface: This is an excerpt to the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) white paper and the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) webinar; click on the respective...
View ArticleData Loss Shortcuts: Trust Coworkers to Follow Policy
[Preface: This is an excerpt to the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) white paper and the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) webinar; click on the respective...
View ArticleData Loss Shortcuts: Play the Odds on Disasters
[Preface: This is an excerpt to the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) white paper and the 7 Shortcuts to Losing Your Data (and Probably Your Job) webinar; click on the respective...
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The Ghosts of Backup Present: D2D and Cloud Era
“The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.” – Bill Watterson [This is my third excerpt from my The Future of Backup whitepaper. Download the full whitepaper for instant...
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Backup, Disaster Recovery, and Hurricane Irene
As fate would have it, I’m sitting here on the coast of South Carolina on Pawley’s Island – dead in the most probable path of Hurricane Irene. It got me thinking again about the difference between...
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The Evolution of Stupidity…Disk Versus Tape
I got an interesting article the other day called “The Hot New Storage Technology for 2011 is…Tape?“ The upshot of the article was that thanks to LTO-5, tape is more relevant than it ever has been....
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