Impact Questions
Is VaultLedger® a better choice for your company? B&L offers two great choices for your tape management software: Vertices and VaultLedger.
View a side by side comparison and make an informed decision.
Can Vertices® help your company?
The Vertices tape management system can store, move and track all your media, regardless of platform, and protect your organization against loss of mission-critical data. But is the Vertices tape management software solution a good fit for your company?
Take the Impact Quiz below. If you can answer "yes" to any of these questions, then Vertices might be the tape management solution that can help.
Would VaultLedger® Be a Better Choice?
For the company that doesn't need the level of detail the Vertices tape management system provides, choose VaultLedger or VaultLedger OnDemand™.
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Impact Quiz
1. Do you need to manage the media generated by your company's backup process?
It's easy to lose control over backup tapes when you must handle multiple servers, multiple sites, and diverse backup applications. The Vertices tape management solution can extend your control from your main site to remote sites and even offsite facilities.
2. Do you move tapes offsite for Disaster Recovery purposes?
Most enterprises rotate their disaster-recovery backups to safe offsite facilities. The rotation schemes vary depending on backup timing (daily, end-of-month, end-of-year, etc.) and backup type (full, incremental, etc.). Vertices tape management software provides exceptional data recovery protection, handling whatever rotation scheme you devise. It even tells you exactly when and where to move your media.
3. Have you ever lost or misplaced the media needed for a file recovery?
When your backup application requires media for recovery, you must be able to locate that tape at a moment's notice. The Vertices tape management system can tell you immediately where to find any media it tracks.
4. Have you ever mounted media selected for recovery only to discover that the contents are outdated, incorrect, or marked "scratch"?
You may think all your backups completed successfully, only to find during disaster recovery that you've been storing the wrong media or rotating damaged media. The Vertices tape management system keeps track of media usage, verifies media contents, and-when integrated with your backup application-notifies you when backups are not completed successfully.
5. Are you required to keep data for extended periods of time?
With regulations such as HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley, many companies are required by law to save data for up to three to seven years, depending on industry type. If you must store financial data, emails, business transactions, or other data, for lengthy periods, you need a tape management system that guards against accidental or premature overwrites. The Vertices tape management software solution has redundant systems built-in to prevent any loss of data.
6. Have your operators ever written over a tape prematurely, losing valuable data in the process?
With the volume of media being produced, accidents will happen. Media that is reused prematurely renders its original data useless. The Vertices tape management system has purge-protection safeguards that prevent such accidental re-use.
7. Do you conduct audits to reconcile the media inventory?
Most data centers periodically reconcile tape (media) inventory to make sure the tapes exist and that they reside in the correct location. At larger companies, both internal and external auditors perform these tape audits. The Vertices tape management system has a simple, easy-to-use facility for reconciling physical inventory with the media-tracking database. And with the optional bar code scanning module, the reconciliation can be done quickly and easily.
8. Have you ever lost track of older media after compressing or updating your backup application's database?
Most backup applications process so many files that the database grows to unmanageable proportions and must be decreased in size on a continuing basis. But during such maintenance you may lose the ability to track older (yet unexpired) media. The Vertices tape management system keeps all information secure, thus protecting all your media, regardless of their age or retention periods.
9. Do you occasionally have trouble figuring out how to handle media with multiple backup files from multiple servers?
New tape technology, such as LTO, allows a single tape to contain data from many different servers. This is especially true when one master server backs up other servers and/or desktops. Vertices tape management software easily handles the records for such "stacked" media, so you can keep track of server backups written to a single tape.
10. Do you want a single source to handle information about all the media generated by all your backup systems, regardless of site, host, backup application, or platform?
With many servers, many sites, and diverse backup applications, it is difficult to administer and control the backup process. The Vertices tape management system helps you manage those resources by giving you access to all your media information in a single, easy-to-use application.