On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:08:04 PM UTC-5, Kent Perrier wrote: > > And have it replicated across data centers so that when a DC pukes on > itself (power outage, backhoe incident, act of God, Godzilla vs. Mothra) > its No Big Deal(TM) to business as usual. > > I think the technology behind products like Data Domain is the way to go. > With RTOs decreasing you don't have the time to pull the data off of tape. > We have a small DDR (3.25 TB of usable space) where I work, and with our > workload we are storing 16TiB of raw data in less than 1 TiB of disk. Add > the flexibility for replication and rapid restore on top of that then the > writing is on the wall for the use of tape for anything other than an > archive tier. > > Kent > > I'd have to agree here. VTL is much faster than tape and lower TCO. We've run a pair of DD-510's (mainframe) and a pair of DD-530's (*nix & WinDoze) for several years now with great results. We're just now replacing the DD-530's with an Avamar solution, so we'll see how that goes.
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