Out of all of the questions I hear from our customers, there is one very important factor that is in most cases overlooked or disregarded as boring and unimportant, and that is Off Site Physical Media and Tape Storage. By this I refer to where and how your physical backup and archive tapes are stored. Here are my top questions to ask and considerations for selecting an off site data storage provider.

While others are getting out of the tape storage business, Hewlett Packard is coming in with its USB tape drives for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). These are the HP Storageworks DAT 72 USB and DAT 40 USB. The digital audio tape (DAT) drives use the universal storage bus 2.0 interface, making storage essentially plug-and-save. With HP’s [...]