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Data Storage: Mistaking Backups for Archives - Formtek - 27 Aug 2011
Companies often make the mistake of confusing archives with backups. That’s an observation made by Laura Guio, IBM Vice President, Storage Sales, Systems & Technology Group, at the 2011 Implementing Information Infrastructure Symposium (IIIS) in Sydney sponsored by ComputerWorld.
Backups and Archive data serve different purposes within the business and should be treated as such, but many companies attempt to use their backups for archival. While costs of archiving tend to be higher, Guio suggests that the use of virtualized storage could help in keeping costs down by increasing storage utilization by as much as 30 percent.