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Without question, carefully planned and executed backup procedures are critical to every business. Data loss can mean the loss of accounts receivable, pending sales, and customer loyalty. As evidence of data loss devastation, 90% of all companies that experience data loss because of disaster are out of business within two years, and nearly 50% never reopen their doors at all.

As server capacities continue to grow, the search is on for easier methods and smarter technology to protect the expanding data. Backup has to be affordable and trouble-free. A cumbersome backup process is a concern of today's small-to-midsize business because the risks of human error and neglect compound the problem and emphasize the need to safeguard the data.

Today's inexpensive tape automation solutions enable small and medium sized businesses to easily reduce their risk of data loss, while enjoying numerous other benefits including labor savings and convenience. This paper will help you determine if tape automation is appropriate for your organization considering your financial and risk management objectives.

This is a White Paper about Tape Backup. Whether you are backing up an individual workstation or a small network, tape is an ideal storage medium because it is capable of storing high capacities of information for a relatively low cost. And, tape is perfect for archiving because you can store cartridges off site for enhanced data security.

As tape cartridge capacities grow there is an increasing risk to access larger amounts of data. Especially with transporting offsite archives. Securing sensitive data from all unauthorized access has emerged as a critical business concern for storage managers. Loss of sensitive data, could result in lost customers, lost revenue, and for some, regulatory penalties.

Suppose for a moment that a virus infects your entire computer network. The virus spreads through every employee's workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your data-it's all destroyed. How would your business recover? Without an adequate backup and recovery plan, your business is at risk.

This white paper discusses the role of tape and disk in backup and archiving data. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using disk or tape, and it looks at the benefits of implementing a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution. Finally, it looks at different customer requirements, and the subsequent need for tape and disk.

This whitepaper explores the benefits of a new portable disk based technology, RDX QuikStor, which successfully and cost-effectively matches and surpasses tape in all of its key aspects AND provides the backup and retrieval performance of random access disk with 99.999% reliability. The RDX QuikStor solution is the only viable removable backup technology for high-capacity desktops and low-end servers.

The cost of energy, which was once a small contributor to the overall cost of doing business, has grown into a major portion of overall corporate budgets. At the same time, the data generated and consumed daily by companies has grown exponentially, while the need to store that data has been driven both by corporate business needs and government regulations, like Sarbanes-Oxley. In fact, storage is estimated to be growing at an alarming rate-60% annually, according to an article on Storage.ITWorld.com.

This white paper discusses how using tape backup as part of an overall data storage solution can readily address both of these issues. As a "Zero Power" medium, data tape storage will reduce power consumption, driving energy costs down while simultaneously strengthening an overall backup and archival strategy. With these energy savings, companies will also be contributing to the larger global initiative of reducing CO2 emissions and saving the environment-whether they have this goal as part of their corporate mission or not.

This whitepaper is intended to address performance issues related to installation and usage of RDX® removable storage systems.

Topics discussed in this whitepaper include:

• Host system performance considerations - An overview of performance impacts of host system configuration, including hardware and software configuration.
• Performance benchmarks - Industry standard benchmarks used to validate system and RDX performance
• RDX Cartridge performance considerations - An overview of the RDX Cartridge and an understanding of performance related aspects.
• RDX interconnect performance considerations - An overview of interconnect related issues (USB/SATA) and possible performance impacts.

This white paper discusses the storage needs of SMBs, which are similar to those of large corporations, but addresses the fact that the storage solutions must be completely different. Faced with multiple options, SMBs must have an appropriate strategy and the proper technology in place to address these needs. Fortunately, storage technology that was once affordable only to larger enterprises is now readily available to the SMB market and even the small office/home office (SOHO) market. This development of "personal storage" as the key component of an overall data storage solution can enable SMBs to simultaneously establish practical and highly effective backup and archival practices.

In order to realize the increased performance capability the infrastructure supporting this technology must be capable of providing comparably high data rates. Otherwise, full performance and reliability may be impacted.