Backup and disaster recovery have historically been treated as two separate islands of IT, handled by different departments. Although some organizations have merged the two, most continue to use tape-based backup and disk-based replication, two separate technologies and processes. Here, Knowledge Center contributor Bobby Crouch explains how to get the most value from your storage investment by using continuous data protection to bridge the gap between tape-based backup and disk-based replication.
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fundamental benefit of true continuous data protection (CDP) is the
preservation of revenue-generating, or revenue-enabling, business
applications. The promise of CDP is the instant availability of
business applications despite any failure, for local or remote
recovery. For years, tape back…