March 2017

Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery   Business Continuity and Tape Backup   "Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events."   The development of Disaster Recovery planning started in the late 1970’s with the rise of digital technology. As businesses moved from paper records to digital storage, a need arose to store the digital information safely in case of a disaster.   In...

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Tape Vaulting, a Secure Process   You’ve worked hard ensuring all your critical data is backed up properly. As data retention requirements expand for your industry or government agency, you have to consider the second part of tape backup; off-site tape storage.   Off-site tape storage is recommended for Disaster Recovery to reduce your risk of having both copies of your data at the same location. A lot of businesses...

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Seery Systems LTO Tape

LTO TAPE   Long Term Data Protection   Our digital universe is expanding. In 2012, IBM calculated that about 2.5 Exabytes, (2.5 billion gigabytes), of data were generated daily . Fast forward only 8 years to 2020 and experts are predicting that our digital universe will expand to 44 Zettabytes; about 44 Trillion Gigabytes.   Businesses are challenged with data storage and backup   As data rapidly increases, businesses are challenged with managing...

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