What are computer storage systems

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What are computer storage systems?

The Internet and B2B e-business applications have caused a phenomenal growth in the amount of data that needs to be stored. Coping with this growth will be a challenge in managing the data in a multi-platform environment.

With this growth and the need to ensure that information is always available, business entities need to have an efficient and effective back-up and recovery mechanism. In the case of either a natural disaster or a software/hardware error, ensuring fast recovery from the disaster can mean savings of thousands, even millions of Ringgit.

If your company is operating in an Internet environment, issues such as fault tolerance and the general reliability of any network system should never be ignored. Disaster recovery is a key factor for systems continuity that should be considered.

An online backup system is something that many have not considered but may prove critical in the event that something does go wrong.

BACKUP is the most important aspect of business continuity. You do backups not only on critical business systems and applications alone, but on the desktop as well. Normally, very few business entities actually have a solid plan to back up the desktop environment, yet a great deal of critical data resides on the desktop.

Some critical data and information include financial and costing reports, accounting ledgers, product designs, product costings, business and investment plans, customer and supplier databases, employees data. All these require frequent backups.

There are many backups systems. Some uses hardware while many are software-based.

Some backup software ensures reliable information protection from the desktop to the data center with solutions to allow for non-disruptive application; continuous availability of business critical information through automated fault management, data migration, replication of information and disaster recovery; and provides automated proactive and reactive management of storage resources, as well as online performance and scalability for information technologists to manage and monitor global, distributed network storage resources from a central location.

If you want to know more technical information on storage and backups, please visit the following websites:

www.techfest.com for articles with varying depth for whatever technology you need to read.

Some of the storage management software available in the market are:

Veritas Software

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