One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

It’s a gross understatement to say that disk has taken the backup world by storm. Whether the goal is to complement and improve tape performance or to replace tape altogether, it’s safe to say that no ...

The gospel of disk has been preached for so long now that disk seems to be the inevitable choice for backup technology. But observers throughout the tech world say there still are plenty of reasons to ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Correctly sizing a disk backup ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

It’s important to note, however, that the term disk-to-disk backup may be a bit misleading. What we’re really talking about when we use the expression “disk-to-disk backup” is actually disk-to-disk-to ...