Why and How to Choose a PC Backup Solution?
This loss seems even more serious once you realise that most of them didn’t have a backup . Statistics? At least 65% of users do not backup before travel, while 90% do not backup while on the move. Why? Well, the top three reasons I have heard are: - My backup software does not work over WAN - I had limited bandwidth connectivity - I hate backups - they slow down my PC and work The main problems seem to be availability of bandwidth and backup disruptions over WAN/Internet. Issues with bandwidth arise due to the huge amount of duplicate data between corporate users. Not very surprisingly, over 80% of data across corporate PCs (emails/docs etc) is duplicate. It is these duplicates that choke bandwidth and storage. Here’s where Data De-Duplication – henceforth referred to as DDD – comes in. This technology saves just a single copy of duplicate data, thus cutting down on duplicates and shrinking the backup size for corporate PCs. This potentially savings in backup time, b...