Shrinking Backup Windows
Two critical business dynamics are converging on data center staff responsible for data protection: rapidly growing volumes of mission-critical data and expanding business hours. The result is a shrinking window of time available for routine backup operations. For many enterprises—especially those with global offices and large databases—there just aren’t enough hours in the day to back up their critical data using traditional tape libraries.

Add to this situation the impact of backup system downtime caused by inherently unreliable tape-based systems. Given their backup requirements, data center staff cannot afford to have their backup systems down for the 8 – 10 hours often required to repair their tape libraries.

SEPATON addresses these challenges with data protection solutions that: