Overland Storage Research Report Sample

As the market has moved towards disk‐based solutions for shrinking backup windows and increased restore times, the cornerstone of disaster recovery and regulatory compliance is a clean tape backup with its proven shelf life, proven reliability, and proven safety.

• 91% of respondents store data on tapes as part of their DR plans
• 45% of respondents store their data offsite or with a third party as part of their DR plans
• 63% of respondents will expand their tape backup in the future as part of their DR plans

In a true DR scenario, the servers are gone, the network is gone and the disks are gone and you have to start over… tape is the foundation that you build your DR plan upon.