Migrating From Tape to Disk Backups
Learn how small and medium sized businesses can migrate to products with features designed for large enterprises but in a footprint of an appliance compatible with the SMB budget.
As backup software breaks away from its historically tight integration with tape, IT administrators are implementing disk-based backup products that are optimized to address new priorities. The new disk-based backup products geared to SMBs are being enhanced with enterprise-class product features that are getting less expensive, making it feasible to back up from disk to removable disks, doing away with tape backups altogether. As storage capacity increases, a larger backup capability is required.
Unfortunately, SMB’s have often been underserved by storage products. Either the product is too expensive to match the budget or the solution is designed for a small or home office, and is incongruent, unreliable and difficult to use.
