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          - [SAP HANA Workloads](https://www.cobaltiron.com/solutions/sap-hana/)
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# Cobalt Iron Blog

## Doug Chando

### Recent Posts

## [Pull Your VTLs Out of Their Administrative Silos](https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/pull-your-vtls-out-of-their-administrative-silos)

It's no secret that disk is the predominant method used for storage in the backup and recovery space. With the cost of storage going down precipitously, disk based backups have certainly become the...

November 5, 2020

[Compass Features](https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/tag/compass-features)

## [Is Tape Backup Dead?](https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/is-tape-backup-dead)

Is the age of tape backup finally coming to a close? Maybe, but plenty of companies are still heavily invested in tape backup and are wrestling with the decision to migrate from tape to disk or cloud...

January 7, 2020

[Operational Complexity](https://info.cobaltiron.com/blog/tag/operational-complexity)

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