There are even rumblings from many IT executives that the cloud backup is quicker than the primary backup.
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There are cases in which cloud could function as the primary backup site, with on-premises backup as the failover environment.
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That included making sure the Hackensack branch could serve as a backup home base in the event that both the primary and backup power at the main office went down.
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Last spring a tornado in Georgia wiped out the primary and backup data centers at Sumter Regional Hospital in South Carolina.
First, the professional installer had enabled automatic backup between the primary disk partition and a backup disk partition on the same physical disk.
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Comparing backup and primary power solutions is like comparing rotary phones and smart phones.
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This not only affected the primary but also the secondary backup network which is supposed to protect against these kinds of problems.
They're being used in main hospitals as backup systems and in rural clinics as a primary source of electricity.
The primary computer that controls critical station functions defaulted to a backup computer, but it was not letting the station communicate with Nasa's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, the US space agency said.
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Similarly, with less critical services, you should be able to reprovision from backup storage after a short but acceptable outage, even when the primary storage has been lost.
Data reduction (compression and deduplication), once only implemented in backup storage, is showing up in some shops as a reality for primary storage.
Whether for everyday use as a primary power source, for use during periods of peak grid demand, or for backup use during emergencies, fuel cells offer an attractive, efficient and eco-friendly solution.
Backup or standby generators cost an order of magnitude less than generators designed to provide primary power.
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