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Virtual Tape and Physical Tape: Power in Combination

Overview Over the past few years, the approach IT organizations have taken to backup, restore, and disaster recovery technologies has evolved significantly. This paper describes the need for virtualization, and the current landscape of tape virtualization solutions, as well as why using both virtual and physical tape solutions are ideal for most open systems environments.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Sun Microsystems	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries, Virtualization

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