In these trying times, it's prudent to go back to basics and review the foundation of a sound IT strategy. This is exactly what the 3-2-1 Best Practice approach is all about. Endorsed by leading storage industry analysts, 3-2-1 provides a very a simple, yet reliable approach to securing data for the long term though the efficient optimization of IT resources.

In short, the 3-2-1 Archiving and Data Protection Best Practice advocates that a minimum of 3 copies of all business critical data be retained, that these copies should be kept on 2 different types of storage media, that and at least one copy should be offsite on removable media.

Read this brief paper to learn about the numerous benefits of 3-2-1 archiving.