Category Archives: Tape Backup

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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Two Important Questions to Answer about your Backup Solution

In today’s world, IT managers are being forced to backup more and more business critical data. Often times, using the same outdated equipment. Think about it, if you are still using tape as your backup solution your data has probably … 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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Features and Options of Tape Backup Systems

Tape backup systems surfaced as popular options for personal computer and business use in the mid 1970s. The technology, innovative at the time, used magnetic tape reels to backup important information contained within a home or business computer for restoration … Continue reading

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Live By the Cloud, Die By the Cloud

A recent blog post by PC World’s David Coursey referenced the reliability issues inherent in cloud computing, particularly with backed-up data.  His comments were prompted by the Google outage that left 14% of its user base without access to their … Continue reading

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