Businesses of every size are experiencing an explosion of data storage needs – due primarily to increased governmental regulation, burgeoning e-mail and collaborative messaging, and the digitization of virtually all business information. Such developments present significant challenges for organizations – particularly the small to medium-sized business (SMB/SME) when it comes to protecting critical data through conventional server backup and recovery solutions.
SMB/SMEs aren’t keeping pace with the accelerating growth of data and the associated need to protect it. They struggle to find a complete data protection solution that is effective, reliable, affordable, and easy to use. Most data backup solutions require the piecemeal process of finding and selecting multiple vendors for the various components needed for data storage, backup, recovery, and archiving. This includes the evaluation of various offerings in servers, disk drives, tape drives, backup software – and then a systems integrator to pull it all together.
In the end, SMB/SMEs too often settle for patchwork solutions which have a high probability of failure due to incompatible components and unreliable technology (tape backup).
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