Monthly Archives: December 2010

Tape Backup vs Disk Backup: Sorting Through the Confusion

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Bill Hobbib

There is no doubt that nightly data backups are going through the biggest shift of the last 30 years. In fact, for more than 50 years nightly backups have been done to tape. Why to tape? If disk backup is … Continue reading →

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Town of Brookline, MA Switches from Tape to Disk Backup System

Posted on December 15, 2010 by Bill Hobbib

It just works! Sometimes we get comments like this from customers such as the Town of Brookline, Massachusetts  that we think are pretty cool.  What I really liked about the Town of Brookline was that their comment was frank and … Continue reading →

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Difference between Data Movement in Disk Backup vs. Primary Storage

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Marc Crespi

In my last blog post, I outlined 5 key reasons scalability is critical in disk-based backup architectures. Specifically, I wrote about how critical it is that a product’s architecture truly matches its intended use case. If you look at the … Continue reading →

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Survey: 31% of Organizations Shift from Tape to Disk Backup in 2010

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Bill Hobbib

Ongoing Shift from Tape to Disk Backup A recent survey by SearchStorageChannel.com indicates that over 31% of organizations planned to reduce their reliance on tape as a backup medium in 2010.  This is the highest percentage of organizations to indicate … Continue reading →

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