Research shows the leading obstacle to disk-based backup deployment has been cost.

In the last 12 months, Virtual Tape Library (VTL) technology has shed its "emerging technology" status and moved into the "maturing" product category. Having proven itself as a viable alternative to tape for both backup and recovery -- VTL technology has relegated tape to the important but tertiary role of long-term and off-site archival.

Several factors have contributed to VTL's early success in the market, its ease of use (it slips easily into existing backup environments, requiring few changes to existing policies and processes and, importantly, preserves end-user investments in backup software), its effect on performance (enabling organizations to meet backup window objectives), and lastly, but perhaps most importantly, its ability to provide both fast and granular data recovery.

Read how ProtecTIER from Diligent has been proven to dramatically reduce backup to disk capacity using fast and scalable data de-duplication technology that works seamlessly with existing backup infrastructures.

Authors:
    Heidi Biggar
    Tony Asaro
    Brian Garrett