With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...

If you are looking for the right software to ease your backup pain, look no further. Despite advances in the size and speed of tape backup hardware, in many cases the offerings just do not cut the ...

To all companies, data is a vital resource for business operations. Protecting data from corruption, user error, hardware failure, theft or site disaster is widely recognized to be a critical ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. Everything people see now has been here before, and the cycle continues. This adage also applies to technology. What people see now as novel ...

Backup has changed almost beyond recognition in the past decade or so. Traditional backup, to tape that was moved offsite with a secondary site to operate from in case of disaster, has given way to ...