The volumes of data we are now able to store would have been unthinkable a few years ago, yet we are also storing more information than ever before, and for much longer. Extrodinary data growth over a relatively short period of time has put enormous pressure on IT managers as they try to balance the need to minimize storage requirements and budgets with the business imperitives of compliance and protecting company data from malicious threats.

This free whitepaper from lto.org outlines 5 best practices for backup and long-term data protection as well as the evolving role of disk and tape in the data centre.