Archive for May, 2008

Backup and Corruption Protection: “I want to go tapeless”

May 15th, 2008 Bill Murphy

I constantly hear:
1) “I want to virtualize my environment.”
2) “I want to eliminate tapes and go tapeless.”
3) “I want buy a SAN.”
4) “I want to replicate between my headquarters (HQ) and DR facility.”
The key here is appropriately mixing technologies. By design, and based on the laws of physics, virtualization and SANs need speed and high performance. [...]