Stretching Backup Muscle

摘要

When was the last time you took a critical look at your backup gear? Storage vendors are proposing new iSCSI (Internet SCSI) backup devices that can make your data protection cycles faster and more flexible ― and therefore more responsive to business requirements. Generally, iSGSI-based backup solutions have a moderate acquisition price, but they work most efficiently with a separate SAN to keep traffic apart from the LAN. This increases the cost of your project, but in exchange, you get priceless peace of mind knowing added traffic won't choke your LAN.