Tape has the misfortune of serving as the point revealing backup success, along with failure, which is more acutely remembered. Backup failure and its association with tape has let disk vendors promote disk as a cure-all for the backup blues. In fact, disk vendors have successfully promoted disk to the point that it is and has been considered more press-worthy than tape for some years. At the same time and without fanfare, tape has continued to evolve into media that, when coupled with the best automation, serves extremely reliably and in ways that disk simply cannot.
In fact, now that users have implemented disk as backup over the last few years, the majority of disk only data centers - 68 percent - plan to add tape back into their data protection environment. Although disk is a very valuable asset in protecting data, it is not a utopian solution that solves all data backup woes. Tape's indispensability is slowly being acknowledged, even by disk aficionados.
Spectra Logic, with 30 years experience in the fast-moving field of high technology, is committed to protecting data - your data. Spectra has extensive expertise with all forms of backup, and therefore understands the continuing and increasingly important role of tape in protecting data. To that end, Spectra Logic has set itself a goal: Tape Without Pain.
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