ALL enterprise backup will be solid state in the long term future - and
the concept of backup itself and the
ratios of live data
to archive data will change completely.
Data access times and
data recovery which are too slow - will be regarded as
unacceptable
design failures.by Zsolt Kerekes,
editor
There are profiles for over 500 backup companies on
StorageSearch.com - and thousands of related news stories, case studies and
articles.
I used to try and list the vendors into sensible categories
(but those lists got too long and cumbersome). I used to write summaries for
the most popular backup
articles (but that too got out of hand). So I've given up on long lists
and you can use
site search
instead to find what you want. |
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If you're planning ahead
- and as you've arrived at a web page with "backup" in the title
then you obviously do think ahead - I expect all enterprise backup to be solid
state one day - because SSD backup will have lower cost of ownership and more
desirable characteristics than hard disk, tape or optical. The technology
arguments and roadmap to
bulk storage petabyte
SSDs are explained in this article.
The important thing to
realize is that even if hard disks are free - they become obsolete in the
enterprise - because users have to leverage and make money out of their data
(by processing it in a timely manner). And enterprises will face increased
pressure from physical space and electrical costs - which only solid state
storage will be able to deliver.
So everything that most of you do now
with respect to backup - all the processes and all the technologies - should be
regarded as temporary. Sometime in the next 10 years everything you do to
protect and archive data will start to change dramatically. Sooner in
industries which are more data centric. You can keep up to date with the
transition to solid state storage in
SSD news.
A lot of
you might say - I'm not sure it's going to happen - or it doesn't affect me now.
That's
OK. And you may still find our archived content on traditional backup useful for
many years. But the mission statement for StorageSearch.com (since 1998) has
been - "leading the way to the new storage frontier". That's what we
do. Other storage
publications have always followed years behind - and often do that old
stuff better.
If you want to read about old storage stuff on this site
- take a look at
SSD market
history or how the
backup market moved from tape to disk and VTLs. |
| See also:-
data recovery,
disk to disk backup,
online backup,
SSD backup,
tape drives |
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| "Design to fail -
because... No matter what kind of solutions you are going to use, their inner
resiliency, the level of redundancy you are going to introduce (multiple
servers, storage, datacenters, IT stuff), at some point something is going to
break. Its not a matter of IF, but only of WHEN." |
| Do we really
need backups? - by Luca
Dell'Oca, VirtualtotheCore.com
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the other end of the SSD supply chain - when a user has a damaged SSD which
contains priceless data with no usable backup? |
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