With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...

If you are looking for the right software to ease your backup pain, look no further. Despite advances in the size and speed of tape backup hardware, in many cases the offerings just do not cut the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. To test backup and restore time and throughput, we used a ...

Last week we covered an advanced disk-based backup system from EMC that allowed ultra fast data recovery from backups. The major downside to the EMC product is that it carries a heavy price tag and is ...

Last month we looked at a few methods for backing up data. This month we will discuss what types of data backup systems are currently available. While it is possible to backup data directly to ...

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 ...

Druva, which to this point has been known for data protection and backup in the cloud for PCs, laptops and mobile devices, announced a new server backup product today called Phoenix aimed at bringing ...

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 ...

The Iomega USB Mini drive holds up to 128MB of data in a device about the size of a pack of matches and is a great way to back up presentations and other data that need to be kept portable. Backing up ...

In a world filled with uncertainty, ambiguity and vagueness, the one reality about which there is absolutely no doubt is that data will continue to grow unabated. A recent IDC survey states that user ...

The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question.