Virtual backups are increasingly becoming a more reliable and efficient alternative to tape backups, and here's why:

42% of attempted recoveries from tape backup failed in the past year. - Microsoft.

31.2% of IT professionals surveyed say that unreliable tapes are a significant problem -Storage Magazine.

71% of all tape restores fail -Gartner Group.

40% of IT managers have been unable to recover data from a tape when they needed it -Yankee Group and Sunbelt Software.

• No more switching tapes or manual rotations.
• Bare metal recovery of Windows servers in minutes not hours/days as with tape.
• Servers backed up to local storage every hour vs. nightly with t ape.
• No more susceptibility to tape media and physical drive motor problem.
• Restore from long term snapshot data from prior days, weeks, months, years…you decide.
• Daily incrementals are merged nightly into local Virtual Server image and mirrored offsite.
• Boot off a local virtual server that is hardware independent and can run off any PC/Server in the event of a disaster.
• Compatible with VMware and other virtual environments.