What are the current challenges with traditional backup for remote or branch office (ROBO) data protection?
Data protection becomes challenging as companies become more stratified. The original approach to ROBO backup was to install traditional backup equipment (e.g., backup servers, tape libraries and tape drives) and perform backup. Often in the beginning, this was moderately manageable through remote console services. But as these environments age and grow in size and in number, the ever-increasing backup management and IT costs associated with ROBO backup become a nightmare. Backup in these sites can often be characterized as aging hardware, high error rates, limited resources, and low network bandwidth to a hub or central site. Given the lack of qualified onsite resources, risk for unrecoverability increase not only due to failed backups, but media mismanagement as well.
