Tape storage still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information ...

The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

Despite the many advantages of disk storage for backing up data, shipments of tape storage keep growing because for some jobs, tape is best. It might surprise some that despite the popularity of disk ...

If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

This is the storage format every datahoarder wants to use (but can't) ...

The recent well-publicized backup tape losses at the likes of Bank of America and Ameritrade appear to be pushing some companies to consider alternative storage technologies such as virtual tape and ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

Every company has a need to back up their critical data in case their original is lost or corrupted. This need of archiving gave birth to the external data storage industry. Many leading industrial ...

Tape is the Mark Twain of data storage: reports of its death are certainly exaggerated. Tape continues to play a role in the enterprise, and not just because it is a tried and tested technology in ...

Pure Storage launched a data protection and recovery system designed for flash and cloud environments called ObjectEngine. The ObjectEngine platform lands less than six months since Pure acquired ...

HP and Sony have collaborated on the creation of a next-generation digital audio tape (DAT) format, the two companies announced Tuesday. Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as ...