Improving the Cost, Reliability, and Responsiveness of Your Backup and Recovery Infrastructure

Demand for greater application availability and unprecedented growth in storage capacity are two of the biggest challenges facing enterprise IT today. These two trends are affecting many areas of the technology environment, but few are showing the stress exhibited by the data protection infrastructure.

Magnetic tape, the predominant storage medium for backing up application data, is now seen as a major stumbling block to desperately needed improvements in backup and recovery processing. As the amount of data to be protected escalates and business user demand for application availability increases, the physical, mechanical nature of tape is preventing innovative new approaches to backup processing.

Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) offer a new way of thinking about enterprise data protection. Providing a virtual interface that mimics existing tape resources while writing backup data to disk, the VTL addresses the limitations of tape-based processing without changing the basic paradigm of enterprise data protection.