All the noise surrounding continuous data protection (CDP) has been escalating since the term was first rolled out last fall at Storage Networking World. But one of the consistent sounds that rise above the noise is the warning that CDP is not a disaster recovery solution. It is routinely not a replication-type approach. Continuous data protection uses disk technology to continuously capture updates to data in real time or near real time. Primary result: Backup win- dows become irrelevant because backup is occurring all the time. Secondary result: Files can be available at spinning-disk speeds.
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