Most companies understand that the only way to ensure data protection and business continuity in the face of the worst sorts of disasters is to establish a remote recovery site at a significant distance from their main and branch offices. As a result, many companies are already backing up their main and branch office systems to tape, but what they don't understand is just how vulnerable their data and their business remains. This whitepaper explores the high cost, complexity and potentially dangerous shortcomings of a strategy based only on tape backup.