Together they enjoy traveling, fishing and developing new cuisines from their vegetable garden.Data protection is arguably one of the most critical and daunting tasks facing IT organizations. Nikole and her husband Mike have been married for 15 years and live in Johns Creek, GA. In her spare time, she enjoys volunteering at children’s hospitals, senior centers and bible study groups. Her goal to impact an organization’s productivity for long term gain is bolstered by her vision of bringing purpose to a team in order, to foster healthy and productive relationships.
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As a member of numerous local professional organizations and various women’s executive networks, Nikole believes that building a strong contact network ensures business success. She also hosts Silver Lining in the Cloud, an Internet live streaming talk show featuring business executives discussing the challenges and solutions in the B2B sales cycle. She is an avid participant in sales training courses, workshops and seminars that helps her keep current with business trends. Nikole Smith-Toptas, marketing manager, CDI Managed Services, is a seasoned sales and marketing professional with over two decades of experience in business and project development, training program management, customer service and managing multi-functional work teams. Nikole Smith-Toptas, Marketing Manager, CDI Managed Services In conclusion, old-school is not always the best particularly when it comes to technology and protecting valuable, necessary company data. This means, if the beginning of the tapes becomes corrupt, then you cannot access the remaining data. Most of the time there is no prior indication to help prepare you.Īdditionally, due to the linear nature of tapes, if any portion of the tape malfunctions, then all subsequent data is lost. Magnetic tapes fail up to 20-50% of the time! Sad to say it is a common occurrence for a tape cartridge to become corrupt and valuable information is gone forever. On a hard drive you can easily access a specific location and quickly pull the file you need. This takes way more time than random access of files. So, if you need a file recorded at the middle or end of the cassette, then you may have to search or read the entire tape to get that file. Tapes cannot be accessed randomly and have to be viewed sequentially. Pray that your tape drive keeps working forever. In other words, there will be an issue reading any tape from your drive on any other drive, even if the type or brand are identical. Over time, alignment heads will move slightly, which can make a recording unique to that particular drive. Problems can be experienced if you try to get your tape to work in a different tape drive. In contrast, hard drives and other hermetically sealed data storage options, such as those used in Cloud data storage, are protected from dirt and dust, and will protect data better. It only takes a small amount of dust to ruin an entire cassette. Additionally, tapes can be exposed to the elements when transported to a different location. These can get directly on the tape, or even into the tape drive.
When read, the magnetic tape passes over a read head, allowing exposure to the air and any contaminants it carries with it. Tapes and discs can be adversely effected by environmental factors, and easily damaged. But, is this truly a wise choice? So, here are a few reasons to not trust your valuable historical data to magnetic tape. Many institutions still feel comfortable with this “old-school” method use this type of technology to backup all of their essential data. Magnetic data storage was discovered in the early 1950s, and became popular in the latter part of the twentieth century in the form of floppy disks and cassettes. But “old-school” is not necessarily the best when it comes to technology. And when it comes to things such as work ethics, cooking and music, shout out to Toni Braxton, we can find that to be true. By Nikole Smith-Toptas, Marketing Manager, CDI Managed ServicesĪs we get older it’s always fond to think and praise “old-school” ways as the best way of doing things.
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