About Writer Chris Schutte is the author of "The Technology Director", a weekly newsletter that focuses on technology in K-12 schools. He is also the President and Founder of Premier Technology LLC, a technology consulting and integration firm. To sign up for his FREE newsletter go to http://www.premiertechnology.net.
Why Tape Backups Are Obsolete In Todays Schools Most schools use tape to backup their important data. Tape is a form of magnetic media in a linear form, similar to VHS tape. It is not very quick or inexpensive, and is not extremely reliable. In the past though, it was just about the only form of removable media that had the capacity to hold an entire network's data.To keep things reliable tapes need to be alternated in a rotation and then...... Similar Editorial : by Neha Gupta. | Source : Integrated Technology