Data protection: recovery with tape

Computer Technology Review, Oct, 2004 by Rich Harada

It may be inconvenient and even a little more costly for a user to wait for restoration of lost information from tape, but for less time-sensitive data, a tape solution is the best option because of its minimal impact on the bottom line--especially compared to the costs of a disk-based recovery option.

Summary

Building a data protection and business continuance plan is, for most organizations, a very complicated endeavor. These organizations would be well-served by making tape storage the foundation for their DP/BC plan, the default repository for backing up and archiving data.

Tape continues to be the most broadly based storage solution available to meet data protection, archival and business continuance requirements. Other technologies may be layered on top of tape architecture to provide higher levels of performance to meet the Recovery Point Objectives and Recovery Time Objectives required by some mission-critical applications and digital asset classes, but these technologies complement tape rather than replace it.

Rich Harada is president of the Tape Technology Council.

www.tapecouncil.org

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