How to Choose the Right Backup System

As tape drives fast become overloaded, unreliable and obsolete.

Kepczyk
Kepczyk

By Roman H. Kepczyk
Quantum of Paperless

Your firm’s safety net in the event of any disaster is your data backup. It better be consistently performed and securely stored offsite.

Typically, firms have a problem when their old backup systems fail or the tapes don’t complete because there’s too much data to fit. This is becoming a common problem as more data and more applications add significantly more volume, making the backup application require more storage and a longer running time to complete.

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The tape drive you have today will be the last one you will ever own. Today 57% of firms are backing up all their data to the Internet at least once per month. And the trend shows every sign of accelerating. But how do you choose the right solution for your firm?