Disk-to-Disk Online Backup Overview
Offering complete automation and immediate restores, disk-to-disk online backup is simple, secure, and reliable. Quelling concerns associated with self-managed data protection – including equipment costs and maintenance, disaster recovery readiness, regulatory compliance, and more – Disaster Recovery Group’s online data backup and recovery services offer quick and simple service setup, unparalleled security, and redundancy on several levels.

Online Backup Vs. Tape
Disk-to-Disk (D2D) online data backup is more reliable, faster, and more secure than tape for backups, storage, and recovery. With no capital equipment costs, maintenance, or labour commitment – not to mention tape failure – Disaster Recovery Group’s online, offsite data protection services offer significant advantages over tape.

Backup Essential Guide: Data Backup Solution Purchase Considerations
There are many factors that make the choice for data backup difficult. To determine the most beneficial and practical solution, businesses must weigh needs and resources – and then counterbalance total cost of ownership. This whitepaper makes the decision a little easier by discussing each major purchase consideration and the characteristics of an ideal backup solution.

Backup Essential Guide: Tape Backup Purchase Considerations
Even today, tape is the most widely used backup medium. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group, over 70% of survey respondents use tape alone or tape combined with a disk-based solution. Perhaps because of existing infrastructure, perhaps because of habit, IT departments continue to use tape backup in spite of several widely-accepted issues and disadvantages. This whitepaper analyzes the characteristics of tape backup and discusses how tape backup stacks-up against ten purchase considerations.

Backup Essential Guide: Virtual Tape Library (VTL) Purchase Considerations
Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs) feature an interface that provides the familiar feel of a tape-based solution while delivering the benefits of disk-based backup and recovery. Allowing the continued utilization of existing backup software / infrastructure, VTLs can backup to tape, hard disk, or a combination of storage media. This whitepaper analyzes the characteristics of virtual tape libraries, discussing how VTLs stack-up against ten purchase considerations.

Backup Essential Guide: In-House Disk-to-Disk (D2D) Purchase Considerations
While disk is widely regarded as the fastest and most reliable backup medium, its adoption rate is relatively low because cost has been an inhibitor for many companies. Over the past few years, though, disk has gained traction because of the continued decline in the costs of disk and bandwidth. This whitepaper analyzes the characteristics of in-house disk-to-disk (D2D) backup solutions, discussing how in-house disk stack-up against ten purchase considerations.

Backup Essential Guide: Online Backup Service Purchase Considerations
In addition to the standard purchase criteria for a backup solution – including recovery objectives, cost, and more – the service and service provider must also be scrutinized when considering online backup. It is truly a critical error to assume all online backup services and providers are the same. This whitepaper not only covers how remote online data backup services stack-up against the ten major purchase considerations for any backup solution, but also provides valuable tips for selecting a service provider.

Backup Essential Guide: Out-Tasking Data Backup Vs. In-House Solutions
Managed (out-tasked) online backup offers advantages that in-house solutions just can’t deliver. One of the most obvious benefits is the freedom from hardware and software sourcing, procurement, installation, labour, and maintenance. This whitepaper analyzes out-tasked backup and in-house solutions, from cost to features.