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Tape Backup Systems: Enormous Hidden Costs
Storage Guardian's online backup and data recovery service eliminates the administrative hassles and hidden costs of tape-based systems.
Tape backup is a cost-effective way to archive data. But . . .
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"As part of a recovery solution, tape backup is slow, cumbersome, labour-intensive, and expensive. It substantially increases the length of time required to restore data and in the worst case scenario, an extended data recovery window could mean the difference between business survival and failure."
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Storage Guardian eliminates the following costs associated with tape-based backup and recovery:
Labor Costs
- Costs of lost productivity due to longer recovery times
- General physical tape management, both on-site and off-site
- Tape maintenance costs i.e., tape rotation to maintain reliability and shelf-life
- Verification of data integrity residing on tapes
Data Retrieval Costs
- Costs associated with the time it takes to retrieve tapes from an off-site storage location.
- Costs associated with locating files to be restored, including searching through tape catalogues and cumbersome lists.
Media Costs
- Costs associated with tape media, proportional to the amount of data to be backed up
Hardware Costs
- Costs of tape drives
- Maintenance of drives
Software Costs
- Costs of tape backup software
- License fee or price per target computer, with agent approach
- Costs of upgrades
- Costs of verifying compatibility between the tape backup software and the operating system, and all its future service packs and versions
Service Costs
- Courier or transportation costs to pickup and deliver tapes between your company and your storage site
- Tape storage costs in a secure off-site location
Storage Guardian is the right enterprise data storage and online data backup solution for your company. Our advanced software solution provides end users with secure, fast, data recovery and offers cost efficiencies you won't find recieve with tape data backup services. Our VAR resellers need the best data backup and data recovery solutions, and Storage Guardian is their choice.
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The University of Toronto has devised a comprehensive disaster recovery plan to ensure its continued operations in the event of a loss of data. This documentation is publicly accessible and is available by clicking here.
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