The Big Three: Archive Joins Backup and Disaster Recovery

Data growth, data access, and data protection have become intermingled to a degree that makes it difficult to understand management processes that historically were pretty straightforward. Specifically, backup and disaster recovery (DR) have been widely understood and implemented. Due to the enormous growth of data, archive has entered the larger IT discussion, playing an important role in organizing, accessing, and protecting data as it compounds over time, alongside standard backup and DR processes. By analyzing how large quantities of data may be used and accessed, the roles of each process are much easier to understand. Historically, backup and disaster recovery…