Today's event by EMC looking at their Backup Recovery Solution. Let see what is their offering to the market.
EMC is going for purpose-built backup appliance.

• direction is to replace conventional tape
• tapeless solution

Evolution of Backup

• local backup
• LAN backup
• SAN backup - disk to disk

Why tape still exist

• Compliance
• Cost
• Habit
• Portability

Solution that EMC offered:

• EMC Data Domain - appliance base backup and recovery solution
• have deduplication features
• off-site replication software inclusive
• DD Boost will do source deduplication. Reduce time for source backup

• Last but not least - EMC Data Domain direction is to have backup and Restore without Backup software

Last word from me, today if you have favourite song to be backup which one that you choose

1. backup to tape or cassette
2. backup to mp3 and saving it somewhere in computer
   Think about it, what are the chances that after 10 years your backup can be played again.