When organizations evaluate the cost of disk and tape, their comparisons often focus on the simple cost per gigabyte of storage. They often overlook the ongoing operational cost with each medium for a given application. For archive, there can be a great premium in the costs of managing spinning disk compared to those for managing offline tape.

    This white paper explores how advanced data reduction technology -- when applied to backup and recovery architectures -- enables the delivery of most of the benefits of disk-based recovery systems at a cost that can be lower than traditional tape-based systems.

    Download this white paper to learn:

• Current backup and recovery operation technology challenges
• How to optimize backup and recovery operations with virtual tape solutions
• The role that emerging data reduction technologies is playing in disk-based backup