Tape is a good backup medium. Unfortunately, tape is
a terrible
recovery medium. Gartner Group reports
50% of tape backups fail to restore. Storage Magazine
reports 77% of tape users have had tape restore
failures. It’s the “roach motel” solution; backups go in and they
don’t come out.
Unitrends offers disk-to-disk (D2D) data protection in an
integrated set of appliances that scales from the smallest
to the largest business. Our elegantly simple solution to
the real-world issues of business continuity and
disaster recovery sets us apart.
We offer support for more than 100 versions of operating systems and applications, heterogeneous storage (DAS, NAS, and SAN),
hot and cold BMR (BareMetal Recovery), optimized compression technology, advanced off-premise data-deduplication mechanisms to conserve precious WAN
bandwidth, and optional 256-bit AES encryption for
security. We also offer disk-based archiving so that you
can free yourself from tape forever.
“Pushing the envelope on tape technologies…led to another unintended consequence: people became very aware of the recovery reliability issues with tape media when used to meet backup requirements.”
-- Eric Burgener, senior analyst/consultant, Taneja Group