Monday, June 05, 2006

Top 10 Reasons Why Online Backup is Replacing Tape,

Here is a follow-up posting to the on-line storage idea. If you liked the idea and need some justification points, this article may be very helpful. This is a vendor white paper, but that does not mean it does not contain valid information -- you just don't get the counterpoints.

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Top 10 Reasons Why Online Backup is Replacing Tape, from LiveVault - White Papers, Webcasts and Case: "Your most important asset - your corporate data - is far too valuable to entrust to cumbersome tape processes, unreliable backup media, and painstakingly slow recoveries. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are rapidly turning to online backup and recovery to displace older, manual, less reliable tape backup. In fact, a staggering 76.5% of IT professionals plan to change the way they do backup over the next 18 months. "

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a great paper and all the points are valid. Unfortunately, their service is a too pricey for the individual or small business.

I am using a similar service called Data Deposit Box for my online backup. It does the same kind of backup but is way less expensive.

Cbrown

Anonymous said...

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