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 ...

Despite a variety of back-up systems and media, Sony proves tape provides best value. Tape backup systems predate personal computers and refuse to die. In fact, based on the new Sony StorStation I’ve ...

Dell Computer has released a new tape-backup system, the PowerVault 122T, a 3.5-inch thick automated tape library that can use up to eight cartridges for a maximum capacity of 320GB of uncompressed ...

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 ...

Tape Backup with Veritas Backup Exec for Windows Servers. Use Windows agents on each box and backup the system state across the network. I would recommend a tape backup large enough to backup one ...

With the current price of hard drives I'm being asked the same question more and more. What is the difference between backing up to tape vs. backing up to a hard drive. You can rotate both daily and ...

In the case of backing up, these consequences can include data that is either lost forever or corrupted beyond use. Nonetheless, many people still avoid backing up. Much of the problem stems from a ...

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 ...

Mention Shakespeare and everyone spouts “To be or not to be.” Mention backup, and the question becomes, “To tape or not to tape?” Is tape dead, or do tape-based backup systems still have a place in ...