Jerome M. Wendt: February 2008 Archives

Data migrations are a painful part of storage management in most enterprise shops today. Driven by storage technology refreshes, storage upgrades, or optimizing data placement on storage systems to improve application performance, data migrations are an ongoing and laborious part of enterprise data management. Introducing disk into the backup process can once again re-introduce the pain point of data migrations. While the initial benefits that companies derive from using disk in any of its different formats in the backup process are usually substantial, the effort associated with managing and migrating backup data from disk to tape over time can become problematic. (read more)