Pyramid Technology Services

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Pyramid Technology Services, based in Maynard, Massachusetts, are expert resellers of Sun Microsystems new, used and obsolete servers, tape libraries and drivers, as well as cpu, memory and disk upgrades. Same day and international shipping available. Pyramid Technology Services, Inc. is a SOMWBA certified business (women owned business) offering computer networking, automation and consulting products and services to small businesses, corporations and government agencies.

NAS on
STORAGEsearch.com

"The storage network is the computer"
said Megabyte, thinking back to the
sunnier days of his youth...

Virtual Tape: Can You Afford to Ignore It? - article by MaXXan Systems

Network connected disk to disk backup systems for the enterprise have come a long way since the first pioneering products started to appear in the pages of STORAGEsearch.com in the late 1990s.

Some of the growing sophistication in the market can be seen by the way that the marketing terminology has morphed from the early D2d (let's kill tape backup), via D2D2T (let's be friends with tape / peaceful coexistence) to the current VTL (Virtual Tape Library - let's just see if they notice that it's more reliable and works faster - and don't tell them that there isn't a tape in the box) type of approaches.

But if you think that speed, reliability and cost are the only things you need to know about the "virtual" versus "real" tape library argument - take a look at this comprehensive article from MaXXan Systems which shows there are a lot more benefits than that. ...read the article, ...MaXXan profile, Disk to disk backup

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