Meeting the need for cost effective, reliable backup

Five years ago the terms “disaster recovery” and “data protection” were synonymous with large budgets and an army of IT personnel to manage the process. But today’s business environment of low cost disks, robust software and high performance tape drives enables companies of all sizes to proactively protect themselves from data loss and the associated risk to business.

The SMB market prompted by huge data growth and increased regulatory demands is primed to invest in data protection.

Businesses, especially small and medium businesses, are looking for solutions that:
 Reliably use the best technology for the application, they can’t afford
     backup failure
 Are simple to use and maintain with ongoing low cost of ownership
 Provide enough capacity and performance to ensure that that backup is
     performed within the available backup window
 Offer investment protection through multiple suppliers and an ease of
     data interchange

Studies have concluded that DAT remains the most commonly used tape technology for data protection in the SMB marketplace because it meets the needs for cost-effective, reliable backup better than any other technology.

 
     "80% of companies
     without well-conceived
     data protection and
     recovery strategies go out
     of business within 2 years      of a major disaster"
     
       Source: US National Archives
       and Records Administration