Iron Mountain

Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM) is the world's trusted partner for records management and data protection services. The Company's mission is to protect its customers' information and protect its customers through compliant information management. Founded in 1951, Iron Mountain has grown to service more than 235,000 customer accounts throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Latin America. The Company offers records management services for both physical and digital media, disaster recovery support services, and consulting - services that help businesses save money and manage risks associated with legal and regulatory compliance, protection of vital information, and business continuity challenges. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.ironmountain.com.

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Virtual Tape: Can You Afford to Ignore It? - article by MaXXan Systems

Network connected disk to disk backup systems for the enterprise have come a long way since the first pioneering products started to appear in the pages of STORAGEsearch.com in the late 1990s.

Some of the growing sophistication in the market can be seen by the way that the marketing terminology has morphed from the early D2d (let's kill tape backup), via D2D2T (let's be friends with tape / peaceful coexistence) to the current VTL (Virtual Tape Library - let's just see if they notice that it's more reliable and works faster - and don't tell them that there isn't a tape in the box) type of approaches.

But if you think that speed, reliability and cost are the only things you need to know about the "virtual" versus "real" tape library argument - take a look at this comprehensive article from MaXXan Systems which shows there are a lot more benefits than that. ...read the article, ...MaXXan profile, Disk to disk backup

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