Today's advances in storage technologies offer many different choices for data protection and business continuity. Your choices include tape, disk drives, RAID, and data mirroring (just to mention a few), in combination with storage software to manage your data protection solution. However, it is important to understand that these technologies are not standalone, and the greatest level of data protection may come from a combination of many different technologies working as one.
Storage data protection solutions are usually disk- or tape-based, and small to medium businesses will more commonly choose tape backup, which offers the following benefits:
- Lower cost of ownership compared to disk-based backup
- Durable media that can be reused and readily located off-site
- Easy data recovery
- Very reliable backup and restore processes
- Scalable to suite a wide range of environments
Tape backup solutions include DAS (Direct Attached Storage), in which storage backup devices are connected directly to the server, and LAN-based solutions, in which storage devices are connected to a LAN (Local Area Network). This guide includes summaries of each to help you identify which is best for your business.
|
Printable version
