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of multimedia writer servers? The addition of multiple media writers to the environment represents a
significant change in scale in the environment from even the single media writer one. These changes will
generally only compound over time, requiring more media writers to be added to the environment to
allow for data and more parallel backups to occur, meeting ever-tightening backup windows. This
change in scale implies several items:
• Organization size: The size of the organization has generally grown in terms of
people working for it. In general, the more data generated, the more people either
generating the data or processing and analyzing the data. There is a particular ...