Backup as a service isn’t for everyone

Having spent 25 years in data protection, with several early years in channel and field-sales roles, I’ve noticed three common things that backup vendors don’t seem to realize about channel partners. 1. Not every VAR/SI should become a backup service provider Some vendors assume that they can help every one of their partners become backup … Read more

Tape backup, cloud-based backups make sense for your organization

Over the last several years, many organizations have at least partially transitioned from writing backups to local tape libraries to creating cloud-based backups. One of the primary obstacles that organizations may encounter along the way is that many of the major backup applications are designed to either work with virtual tape libraries or with proprietary, … Read more

Tape still critical in any data archiving strategy

The rumors of tape’s demise are greatly exaggerated and have been ever since disk companies started predicting the end of tape (which hasn’t happened yet, and is unlikely to anytime soon). A recent Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) research report found that tape is still in use in 56% of organizations. In general, the larger the … Read more