Backup and archive are often difficult to distinguish. Most IT organizations have either treated them as separate activities (each with their own requirements and solutions), or they have used tape backup as a cheap (but not always appropriate) solution for both.

Backup is a temporary record that is ultimately overwritten, while archived information is a permanent record that is moved – not copied – from one system to another and retained for a specified period of time. Backup is an ongoing process and archive is a policy- or event-driven process. Backup is performed to be able to restore data and archive is performed in order to retrieve data.

In this Webcast, Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, will review the basics of the individual functions and, importantly, discuss the benefits of tightly integrating these technologies to effectively manage data.

Lauren Whitehouse Analyst Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG)

The Enterprise Strategy Group was founded in 1999 and is now the leading independent storage analyst firm and most frequently quoted source of storage industry intelligence. ESG's award-winning provides informed, straightforward analysis that helps IT & business professionals, and technology vendors make sense of the complex world of information storage. ESG covers every segment of the information storage industry including storage systems and software, storage networking, and storage services. For more information, visit: http://www.enterprisestoragegroup.com