Category Archives: Disk Backup

The New Arguments for Using Removable Disk in Lieu of Tape for SME Archiving Requirements

By Jerome M. Wendt on September 1, 2011 9:30 AM | Permalink | Leave a comment Continuing (dare I say exploding?) data growth in small and midsize enterprises (SMEs) is forcing these size organizations to confront an issue that was … Continue reading

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A Practical D2D2D DR Plan for Real Life Disasters

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com Recent news tells us that disasters can happen anywhere at any time to anyone. So as more companies adopt disk as their primary backup target, they need to ensure they can do disaster … Continue reading

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Cloud Providers Do Not Deserve the High Opinions that Some Users Have Unwittingly Granted Them

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com The recent outage at Amazon Web Services coupled with the news that Iron Mountain is exiting some of its storage cloud lines of business has created quite a stir in the storage industry. … Continue reading

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Why Disk Has Forever Replaced Tape as a Primary Backup Target

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com Right here, right now, it’s time to state what may sound preposterous to some and obvious to others. Disk has officially forever replaced tape as the primary target for backup software. But the … Continue reading

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Two Tips for Getting the Most Bang for Your Deduplication and Replication Bucks

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com The balancing act that every small and midsize enterprise (SME) plays when making new technology purchases is finding the right balance between cost and technology.  In the area of backup, this particularly holds … Continue reading

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High Capacity HDDs Create Growing Need for Centralizing the Backup of Desktop and Laptop Data

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com It is almost universally recognized that protecting and recovering applications and application data that reside on Linux, UNIX, VMware or Microsoft Windows servers is a necessity no matter what the cost. Yet most … Continue reading

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How SMEs Can Achieve a “Hotter” Warm Recovery at a Very Cool Price

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com “Hot” or “cold” was a decision that every small and midsize enterprise (SME) faced when it came to determining how to best recover their applications in the event of a disaster. So, while … Continue reading

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Ease of Use and Licensing Costs Trump Other Backup Software Features in the Minds of Many SMEs

By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG (DCIGInc.com) http://revinetix.dciginc.com Talk all you want about the different features and functions found in backup software. If an IT administrator in a small and midsize enterprise (SME) thinks about backup at all it is in … Continue reading

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Disk Backup – K-20 Education Market – School Districts, Colleges & Universities

Academic institutions across North America, including K-12 school districts, colleges and universities, are turning to disk-based backup for data protection solutions to safeguard student records, course materials, electronic mailboxes, web applications, and other school information systems from the possibility of … Continue reading

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Backup and Recovery

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 – … Continue reading

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