Showing posts with label tape backup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tape backup. Show all posts
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Tech Talk: W. Curtis Preston on tape use, virtual server backups
In part two of this three-part interview with SearchDataBackup, backup expert W. Curtis Preston, founder of Truth in IT and backupcentral.com, discusses how tape is being used today and virtual server backups.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Coraid EtherDrive helps Emerson College simplify its VM management
When the three-person IT team at Boston-based Emerson College decided to simplify the communications and arts institution's data center, the first thing to go was tape. Fibre Channel was next.
The college replaced its direct-to-tape backup system with a disk-to-disk off-site replication product, according to Frankie Frain, Emerson's manager of network systems. No surprise there, since many IT groups have gone from tape to disk backup.
Switching from Fibre Channel (FC) to Ethernet storage is also not unheard of, although FC is far from being as endangered as tape. But what Emerson did that was different was to move to two Coraid EtherDrive SRX arrays, rather than a more common iSCSI Ethernet storage system, while it consolidated servers with VMware in May 2012.
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