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Simply Business Protection

Overview

Today's advances in storage technologies offer many different choices for data protection and business continuity. Your choices include tape, disk drives, RAID, and data mirroring (just to mention a few), in combination with storage software to manage your data protection solution. However, it is important to understand that these technologies are not standalone, and the greatest level of data protection may come from a combination of many different technologies working as one.

Storage data protection solutions are usually disk- or tape-based, and small to medium businesses will more commonly choose tape backup, which offers the following benefits:
Lower cost of ownership compared to disk-based backup
Durable media that can be reused and readily located off-site
Easy data recovery
Very reliable backup and restore processes
Scalable to suite a wide range of environments
Tape backup solutions include DAS (Direct Attached Storage), in which storage backup devices are connected directly to the server, and LAN-based solutions, in which storage devices are connected to a LAN (Local Area Network). This guide includes summaries of each to help you identify which is best for your business.

Tip: You may find that your business is suited to both a DAS and LAN solution. In this case, think about whether your business is likely to grow in the near future and need more data capacity. If so, a LAN may be better.

This guide will examine the choice of solutions available to meet your company's varying demands and help you choose the tape backup solution that best fits your business. The sections of the guide include:

»  DAS backup solutions: Learn more about DAS backup solutions, what business models they support, and what technologies they include.
»  LAN-based backup solutions: Get more details on LAN-based backup solutions and how they differ from DAS solutions.
»  Backing up remote offices and mobile users: Find out how you can extend your backup solutions to protect these two traditionally underprotected components of your business.
»  HP's tape technologies: Learn more about the products and technologies that HP offers to help you create an effective tape backup solution.
»  Which HP data protection solution is right for you: Use our decision tree to find the right solution for your company.

Note: Follow the "Download a PDF version" link at right to download a PDF version of this guide that includes additional product information and a tape backup QA.

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» LAN-based backup solutions
» Backing up remote offices and mobile users
» HP's tape technologies
» Which HP data protection solution is right for you

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