Recently there was an interesting blog post over at ZDNet entitled ?Where Are the Affordable Enterprise Online Backups?? I made a comment to it ? to the effect that bandwidth and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) are incompatible. That caused some other comments to be made. I decided to write a bit longer post concerning the entire phenomenon on this blog.
First of all, the term ?enterprise online backup? is a bit misleading. What the author of the post was complaining about was that there are no unlimited storage options with associated flat-rate pricing of the sort in the consumer space. The reason tends to be that pesky term ?enterprise? and what it means to people. There?s an old joke that when someone mentions ?enterprise? that means ?hold on to your wallets.? It?s actually a bit more complex than that.
More at http://www.unitrends.com/weblog/index.php/2010/09/06/enterprise-online-backup-and-losing-a-lady-gaga-mp3/
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