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Tapes are not necessary, but may be preferred
As a Storage Architect, I have designed a number of systems that need no tapes to maintain integrety. The issue is that a very large amount of data and a significant support staff must already be in place to support such an infrastructure and see ROI in the required time frame. For small to medium sized companies, tape is stil the best way to preotect most systems. The acid test is that you want to em[ploy the least expensive technology that will give you access to 90 - 95% of your critical data within 4 - 12 hours after a major disaster. If that can be done with tape, then it is also likely the most cost effective scenario. If it cannot be accomplished in the proposed time frame, most businesses find that the losses expected from the additional downtime will exceed the investment necesarry to offer the rquired protection. This is often true by a factor of 10 - 100x. If your company has a multi data center environment anyway, and support staff to support them all lights on, then a fully disk based protection scheme is likely more cost effective, secure, and better meets RPO and RTO objectives. These are high end alternatives, but to dismiss them entirely ignors new technology. Thinking like that will have you unemployeed eventually.
Posted by: Mack DaNife   Posted on: 04/05/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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New technology emulating outdated technology  toadlife | 04/04/04
no kiding, tapes are dead  V Sanders | 04/04/04
Tape technology is FAR from dead  Enterprise Analyst | 04/04/04
Tapes are not necessary, but may be preferred  Mack DaNife | 04/05/04
maintain integrity  BarbarianHorde | 04/05/04
And what else would you use?  Patrick Jones | 04/05/04
32TB for $450,000???  Mace Moneta | 04/04/04
More than just disk...  Norm_z | 04/04/04
these must be same companies sell over priced tapes  V Sanders | 04/04/04
Some of what you are missing  Mack DaNife | 04/05/04
tapes cost to much for what you get  V Sanders | 04/04/04
be cheaper to buy  V Sanders | 04/04/04
What about VTS systems  Enterprise Analyst | 04/04/04
Message has been deleted.  do not use linuxcad | 04/05/04

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