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The Failsafe Continuum: From Tape Backups To CDP

The Failsafe Continuum: From Tape Backups To CDP

Continuous uptime, once a requirement for banks, hospitals and casinos, is becoming a necessity for businesses of all types.

In the late 1960s, when businesses began to deploy mainframe and ‘mini’ computers to handle their information management demands, they relied on batch backups to magnetic tape as a means to themselves from all too frequent hardware and software failures. As transaction volumes grew, so did the window necessary for periodic saves. Because faith in these systems hadn’t yet been established, organizations maintained established paper-based business systems as a fallback. While tape backup systems aren’t terribly advanced, most companies still perform saves to tape and store the media off-site.

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The Case for a Modern Data Backup System

The Case for a Modern Data Backup System

People say “third time’s the charm” about many things. But protection of the data that legal professionals rely on to serve their clients typically isn’t one of them.

Because valuable information like databases, client files and emails are stored on your network, your data backup system has to work at all times—or your business can be at serious risk.  A number of studies in the U.S. and abroad have shown that an overwhelming majority of companies that suffer a major data disaster go bankrupt within five years—up to 90 percent, according to one British study. 

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Moving beyond Pure Disaster Recovery: How to Pull through with Business Continuity Plans

Moving beyond Pure Disaster Recovery: How to Pull through with Business Continuity Plans

The worst term in any IT-related scenario is without a doubt, “downtime.” The constant threat of impending security breaches continue to arise day after day with the potential to create mass destruction in the functioning of organizations. Therefore, it is imperative for organizations to not only have a disaster recovery plan in place for the aftermath, but to also implement a business continuity strategy to aid in the complete avoidance of these IT dangers altogether.


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The 7 Deadly Sins of Backup and Recovery, and How to Avoid Them

The 7 Deadly Sins of Backup and Recovery, and How to Avoid Them

An organization’s servers, systems and data are the lifeblood of its business, and maintaining the continuity of these business systems is a complex and full time endeavor. There are often hundreds of servers or sub-components that can fail, and many more ways that environmental and human factors can trigger such failures.  Any one of these mistakes has the potential to introduce fatal failures into a company’s business system continuity plans.

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Why Backing up Data is More Important than Ever and the Case for Online Backup

It’s well known that small businesses face an uphill battle against the threat of failure. But as businesses make the move toward a paperless office, new threats appear by the day in the form of lost files, corrupted hard drives and data destruction. Business owners are now faced with new questions: what if a hard drive crashes and all of the files are lost? What if someone accidentally deletes a document necessary for regulatory compliance? What if I lose my laptop? 

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University Implements Overland’s Disk- and Tape-Based Backup and Recovery Appliances

“Since implementing Overland’s REO, we haven’t spent one second de-fragmenting disks or dealing with compatibility issues. We’ve gone from spending eight hours a week managing disk-based backups to a couple of hours a year overseeing VTL firmware updates. Plus, REO integrates seamlessly with Overland’s NEO tape libraries for complete D2D2T data protection.”

—Jim Bollinger
Systems and Network Engineer
Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University is named for two influential leaders in American history: George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Founded in 1749, the college is renowned for undergraduate divisions comprising the liberal arts college and fully accredited Ernest Williams II School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics as well as its School of Law.

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University Implements Overland’s Disk- and Tape-Based Backup and Recovery Appliances

“Since implementing Overland’s REO, we haven’t spent one second de-fragmenting disks or dealing with compatibility issues. We’ve gone from spending eight hours a week managing disk-based backups to a couple of hours a year overseeing VTL firmware updates. Plus, REO integrates seamlessly with Overland’s NEO tape libraries for complete D2D2T data protection.”

—Jim Bollinger
Systems and Network Engineer
Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University is named for two influential leaders in American history: George Washington and Robert E. Lee. Founded in 1749, the college is renowned for undergraduate divisions comprising the liberal arts college and fully accredited Ernest Williams II School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics as well as its School of Law.

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