Microsoft getting into Backup - New Server on the horizon
Data Protection Server is an interesting new server product that Microsoft has released and it should provide benefit to just about anyone. With the cost of hard disks going down daily it is easy for you to replace your tape backup system. You don’t have to get rid of tapes completely; they can be used for offsite storage if you want. According to recently compiled market data, tape unreliability prevented 42 percent of tape customers from restoring their data from tape during the past year.
With a wide assortment of partners taking a look at Data Protection server and getting on the band wagon it looks like the first version of this product maybe in order. Microsoft has a open evaluation here. It maybe something to check out and evaluate for your business.
Reasons that I think this is a good move by Microsoft is because of the stats that say data is going to be a problem in the future. How do we store all of this information? Here is an interesting piece of research.
- Email generates about 400,000 terabytes of new information each year worldwide.
- The World Wide Web contains about 170 terabytes of information on its surface; in volume this is seventeen times the size of the Library of Congress print collections.
- Instant messaging generates five billion messages a day (750GB), or 274 Terabytes a year.