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Are the days for traditional backup and recovery numbered? Changing the rules for backup and recovery.

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Organizations require a business continuance strategy that ensures valuable data is protected and applications can be recovered rapidly--if not instantaneously. A business continuance strategy is dependent on replicating any component of the data center that can fail. Self-healing systems may one day eliminate this requirement but the IT industry is still several years away from its arrival. Given the life-giving, highly visible role that IT provides to most businesses worldwide, the vast majority of data-related problems are discovered fairly quickly and, therefore, data-recovery operations occur within a short time after the failure occurred. On the average, approximately 90 percent of all data-recovery operations occur within 24 hours after the initial problem occurred. This means that the problem was detected within 24 hours and corrective actions have been taken. Nearly 95 percent of all data recoveries occur within one week after the problem occurred, and over 99 percent occur within a month after the problem occurred. The real questions are beginning to be asked however are "how long does the recovery action take?" and "how can the large amount of data being backed up be significantly reduced?" The need to reduce the lengthy recovery times from using traditional backup and recovery methods have never been greater.

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Traditional backup and recovery

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