Replace Your Tape Backups With Disk Backup Solutions

More businesses are pursuing disk backup solutions today, since hard disk drives are becoming available in increasingly large sizes of several terabyte.  This has driven down their prices and people are realising the advantages of disk backup as opposed to the traditional tape backups that had been used by many businesses for years.

Disk backup solutions’ biggest advantage is that they are reliable.  Tape drives and tapes tend to fail and because of the strictly chronological way of accessing data, they are also extremely slow compared to a hard disk drive.  Time is money and the slow tape drives have become wholly uncompetitive in today’s fast-paced business world.  If you do away with your tape-based systems altogether, you also save on all the equipment you have to keep and maintain, so switch over to disk-based backups as soon as is practically feasible.

Ensure that you only team up with the most professional of IT service providers to ensure a seamless transition.  They would be able to advise you on the myriad of factors you have to keep in mind when making such a wholesale change to your backup regime.  Your specialist and proprietary software programs should be fully compatible with your backup system, as should your platform and operating system, whether it is Windows, Apple, Linux or any other system.  They would also be able to advise you on which system to choose to avoid downtime as far as possible during backup restoration procedures.

The IT specialist that can assist you on all these fronts is Group 5.  Let us help you make the transition from tape to the latest disk backup solutions.  We are represented in South Africa, the U.S.A. and Australia and have been in the IT industry for over twenty years.  Contact us today to learn how we can help you.