As the many shortcomings of tape backup — today’s incumbent, de facto method for corporate data protection — become too obvious to ignore, it’s increasingly apparent that businesses require new solutions that bring new levels of ease and simplicity. Industry analysts have long noted that tape backups fail to fully restore data as much as 50 percent of the time, an indefensible level of avoidable risk. After all, which half of data can companies afford to lose — the customer orders, the client records, and the invoices? The fact s, virtually all company data is critical to ongoing operations and can’t be placed in jeopardy.

Today, many companies are embracing a sophisticated new approach to data protection –leveraging disk-based, online technologies— that address the challenges and shortcomings posed by today’s tape backup solutions. The following white paper explores the top-10 reasons to protect business-critical data with disk-based online backup and recovery.

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