OptiVault reduces the need for magnetic tape backup, Clear Choice Tests show. Primera Technology’s OptiVault aims to help IT managers solve the problems of long-term e-mail and critical file backups ...

Druva, which to this point has been known for data protection and backup in the cloud for PCs, laptops and mobile devices, announced a new server backup product today called Phoenix aimed at bringing ...

If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

We recently came into a Dell Powervault 110T LTO drive and a bunch of tapes. We installed the SCSI card in our Exchange server on a PowerEdge 2650. We're using Veritas Backup Exec with the Exchange ...

The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been ...

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 ...

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 ...

Data backup is a fundamental part of nearly every organization’s disaster recovery and business continuity plans. But long gone are the days when you had a simple tape backup drive connected to a ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...