| Companies understand the importance of reliable data | | | | Magnetic tapes are known to be fragile. Humidity and |
| storage. Losing large amounts of data can be | | | | heat can adversely affect the performance of a tape |
| catastrophic for any business. More and more of | | | | backup system. Tapes can also get dirty, and unless |
| these companies are choosing to use disk storage | | | | great care is taken while cleaning, one can actually |
| systems instead of the old tape backup systems. | | | | lose data. According to The Gartner Group ( 71% of |
| Although tapes were the preferred way of storing | | | | all tape restores fail. |
| data and backup information for several decades, | | | | Disks are also a much more reliable system of data |
| disks have become more popular for a number of | | | | backup. They can be overwritten many more times |
| reasons. | | | | than tape, and they don't require cleaning. In addition, |
| One of the biggest reasons why companies are | | | | many of the disk backup systems even have |
| switching to disk backup involves the issue of speed. | | | | management tools that people can use to track and |
| While tapes can hold more than ten gigabytes of | | | | manage their data. The data on disks are not |
| data, transferring this much data onto tape would | | | | restricted by sequential streaming. Data can be much |
| take a minimum of several hours. Companies can | | | | more easily located and retrieved. Revinetix is a |
| transfer data to a disk backup system in a fraction | | | | pioneer in disk backup systems. The company |
| of that time. The disk backup systems are more | | | | specializes in the storage of data on disks and can |
| durable as well, and this is a huge factor when | | | | help businesses benefit from moving away from |
| companies are considering data backup solutions. | | | | obsolete tape backup systems. |