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What is Tape Vaulting?

What is Tape Vaulting?   Tape Vaulting is process of moving your critical data offsite and into the care of our highly Secure FIRELOCK Vault. Data is usually transported off-site using removable storage media such as back-up tape & hard drives. Tape Vaulting protects your records for as long as your organization and legal requirements dictate.   Why Tape Vaulting?   Storage of backup media on tape is the most cost effective, accurate and fastest method to restore your data center in...

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Media Protection in a Fire

Media Protection in a Fire   In order to meet the U.L. 72 Class 125 standard, Seery Systems' vault is able to maintain temperatures below the critical threshold ON THE SURFACE of the vault interior, ( 125 degrees).   The Class 125 rating is recognized as the most stringent fire protection standard for data backup media in the world. . If you store your media in a gypsum board room,...

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Best Practices Tips for Off-Site Tape Storage

Best Practices Tips for Off-Site Tape Storage   In today’s business environment, companies can no longer just back up their data. They must also keep an additional copy in a safe, fireproof facility. A very popular way companies back up their data off-site is through tape and tape vaulting. Tape Backup continues to be a valuable and reliable solution for storing safe copies of data off-site. Here are Seery...

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Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery   Business Continuity and Tape Backup   "Disaster recovery is the area of security planning that deals with protecting an organization from the effects of significant negative events."   The development of Disaster Recovery planning started in the late 1970’s with the rise of digital technology. As businesses moved from paper records to digital storage, a need arose to store the digital information safely in case of a disaster.   In...

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Tape Vaulting, a Secure Process   You’ve worked hard ensuring all your critical data is backed up properly. As data retention requirements expand for your industry or government agency, you have to consider the second part of tape backup; off-site tape storage.   Off-site tape storage is recommended for Disaster Recovery to reduce your risk of having both copies of your data at the same location. A lot of businesses...

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Seery Systems LTO Tape

LTO TAPE   Long Term Data Protection   Our digital universe is expanding. In 2012, IBM calculated that about 2.5 Exabytes, (2.5 billion gigabytes), of data were generated daily . Fast forward only 8 years to 2020 and experts are predicting that our digital universe will expand to 44 Zettabytes; about 44 Trillion Gigabytes.   Businesses are challenged with data storage and backup   As data rapidly increases, businesses are challenged with managing...

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