After the big Michelangelo virus scare a few weeks back, I decided it was time to practice what I’d been preaching and buy a tape drive to make consistent backups of my hard disk. I hadn’t been ...

Most organisations have two or three backup products deployed, while many have tapes up to 20 years old – and they don’t know the contents. Meanwhile, tape storage hardware, maintenance and staff ...

Ahh yes... the proverbial "cover your butt" of the home and enterprise computer user, the tape backup drive. I know what you are thinking. You're thinking "I don't ...

The backup appliance is an option gaining in popularity as a means of data protection, especially for SMBs and for branch office use. A backup appliance comprises a backup application preloaded onto a ...

LAS VEGAS -- Nexsan Technologies has introduced InfiniSAN D2D disk-to-disk backup, an enterprise-class storage solution that attempts to lower storage TCO by eschewing expensive tape backup hardware ...

Justin Dover is a network administrator at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville, Tenn. He has presented at many conferences, including the Laptop Institute. Backups are usually a thorn in the side of most ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Cortex IT subsidiary BackupAssist announced the release of ...

If you are looking for the right software to ease your backup pain, look no further. Despite advances in the size and speed of tape backup hardware, in many cases the offerings just do not cut the ...

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 ...

I just started working at a new company and got on me to do something about our backups. We have 7 remote offices with 9 w2k/2003 servers that uses tape backup today and it's not working very well at ...

While personal computers range in cost from a few hundred dollars for a basic system to enthusiasts’ rigs costing thousands of dollars (or more), a computer is a physical object, and it can be ...