3000 BC

CLAY TABLETS are used to record commercial transactions. Backup consisted of duplicating the tablets. 2500 BC

PAPYR U S starts being used in Egypt. Manually copying a papyrus is the only form of safeguarding it.

105 AD 197 BC

PAPER is invented and VELLU M O R PA R C H MEN T , kept in safes for storage made from animal skin, eventually and protection. replaced papyrus.

1800S 1890S 1900-1950S

TYPEWRITERS H E R MAN HOLLER ITH P UNC H CARD S are invented, gaining invented the punch card, are the primary method momentum in the 1860s. so that data could be for data entry, data Carbon paper was used recorded in a medium storage, and data to create copies of typed that could also be read processing. Cards had documents, to be stored by a machine. to be handled with care and stored accordingly.

1970S 1969 1960S

TAPE CARTRID GES FIRS T MAG NETIC TAPES and cassette tapes start being FLOP PY D I S K start replacing punch widely used as a low cost cards for data storage. data storage system.

1982

M AY N ARD ELECTRONICS is founded, and Archive, a backup software 1980S that later is renamed Backup Exec, is created.

C D -R & CD- R W conquered the market. 1987

D AT ( D IGITAL AUD IO S T ORAGE) tapes hit the market, gain interest from the corporate world for data storage and backup.

1994

I O MEG A ZIP D RIVE , EARLY '90S is released, becoming very popular. D ECLIN ING COST S of rewritable CDs (CD-RW) help boost the media as a viable

Later replaced by DVDs.

LATE '90S

S ANs (STO RAG E AR EA N ETWO R KS) gain traction in the corporate world. VTL (virtual tape libraries) start being used to replace tape libraries.

MID 2000S 2000S EXTERN AL HARD D RIVES start gaining market share and U SB FLASH D RIVE being used for backup. enters the market. Kills IOMEGA and their removable disks.

LATE 2000S 2005 N AS (N ETWOR K AT TACH ED STORAG E ) VTL GAIN S WIDER AD O P TIO N , climbs in reputation in the replacing tape libraries in an increasing corporate world. number of companies.

2006 2007 AMAZON DRO PBOX FO U NDE D , LAUNC H E S makes cheap cloud storage available for EC2, and S3 for cloud storage. of cloud platform for data protection and recovery, focusing on the corporate market.

2013

S YMAN TEC EXITS TH E 2009 CLOUD S PACE shutting down Backup Exec.cloud. Gartner coins the term "Recovery-as-a-Service" based on SSD (SO LID S TATE the popularity of cloud-based disaster STO RAG E ) technology starts gaining traction and estimates a projected compound wider adoption. annual growth rate (CAGR) of at least

2015 2015 IDC PUBLISHES the frst MarketScape report for GARTNER RELEASES DRaaS. DRaaS gains momentum as the next step in the evolution the frst Magic Quadrant for of data protection and recovery. Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service

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