To mis-quote Mark Twain  "The reports of the death of tape have been greatly exaggerated." Alistair Mackenzie and Thomas Cowley try to take opposing sides on the seemingly endless discussion about the death of tape as a data protection and storage media. Alistair is pro-tape, or is he? Thomas is anti-tape, or is he? We explore the use cases and examine the place of tape in the world at the end of 2018, whilst trying to avoid an actual fisticuffs situation on the subject.

To mis-quote Mark Twain "The reports of the death of tape have been greatly exaggerated." Alistair Mackenzie and Thomas Cowley try to take opposing sides on the seemingly endless discussion about the death of tape as a data protection and storage media. Alistair is pro-tape, or is he? Thomas is anti-tape, or is he? We explore the use cases and examine the place of tape in the world at the end of 2018, whilst trying to avoid an actual fisticuffs situation on the subject.

To mis-quote Mark Twain&nbsp; "The reports of the death of tape have been greatly exaggerated." Alistair Mackenzie and Thomas Cowley try to take opposing sides on the seemingly endless discussion about the death of tape as a data protection and storage media. Alistair is pro-tape, or is he? Thomas is anti-tape, or is he? We explore the use cases and examine the place of tape in the world at the end of 2018, whilst trying to avoid an actual fisticuffs situation on the subject.

Tape is dead - long live tape!

If you hold valuable data on a corporate IT estate, it needs to be protected.  This limits the risk to your organisation of losing that data and can provide a disaster recovery solution. Silverstring will share our expertise in this field, in these shows, so you can understand how we provide peace of mind in this type of situation.Your data is held in individual servers; it might be in SAN, NAS or object storage; it might be protected by a combination of snapshots, backup solutions or off-site Iron Mountain type cold storage; Whatever mechanisms you use, it’s a challenge to understand what the best technology is to deliver effective recovery of your IT infrastructure.  Whether you run physical servers, virtual servers, or workloads in the cloud, you need data protection for critical applications and data.  These are the sort of situations we will be exploring, with our team who have experience in delivering such solutions and running data protection managed services. Silverstring understand these requirements better than virtually any other business out there.  Our business is built on three key pillars:Data preservationData availabilityData securityOur shows will concentrate on these topics and the technologies around them, whether it’s cloud backup, disk backup or tape backup.  We will focus on the issues that are important to the teams responsible for backup and recovery, providing insight and analysis to help you make the right decisions about how to protect your data.

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If you hold valuable data on a corporate IT estate, it needs to be protected. This limits the risk to your organisation of losing that data and can provide a disaster recovery solution. Silverstring will share our expertise in this field, in these shows, so you can understand how we provide peace of mind in this type of situation.Your data is held in individual servers; it might be in SAN, NAS or object storage; it might be protected by a combination of snapshots, backup solutions or off-site Iron Mountain type cold storage; Whatever mechanisms you use, it’s a challenge to understand what the best technology is to deliver effective recovery of your IT infrastructure. Whether you run physical servers, virtual servers, or workloads in the cloud, you need data protection for critical applications and data. These are the sort of situations we will be exploring, with our team who have experience in delivering such solutions and running data protection managed services. Silverstring understand these requirements better than virtually any other business out there. Our business is built on three key pillars:Data preservationData availabilityData securityOur shows will concentrate on these topics and the technologies around them, whether it’s cloud backup, disk backup or tape backup. We will focus on the issues that are important to the teams responsible for backup and recovery, providing insight and analysis to help you make the right decisions about how to protect your data.

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Tape is dead - long live tape!

Tape is dead - long live tape!