Cheap, high-capacity disk storage and deduplication are pushing tape backup into an archiving role.

Virtual servers have made backups much more challenging than they used to be. Here's how one company solved the problem.

Far from dying, data tape storage technology is getting faster, denser and more secure.

ZL Technologies could lose a legal battle but make a name for itself in the process.

Server virtualization from the likes of Microsoft and VMware is helping companies save on disaster recovery costs.

EMC's long experience in acquisitions helped it win the hand of Data Domain — and it will help the data storage giant with what comes next.

Bacula is a popular and robust open source backup solution. Learn the basics of Bacula configuration with our simple guide.

NetEx says its HyperIP protocol can restore data quickly from remote replication sites.

Storage and IT luminaries gathered last week to discuss the future, and they agreed that it's in cloud and virtual environments.

The Israel Electric Corp. turned to EMC to keep its VMware environment running in case of a disaster.

HP and other data storage vendors are helping users replicate to different storage product families to save on disaster recovery costs.

Data storage vendors are forming partnerships and repositioning themselves in hopes of getting a piece of the electronic medical records stimulus spending.

With commercial implementations and community projects on the rise, analysts nonetheless see barriers to widespread enterprise adoption of open source data storage technologies.

Commentary: What a 4,000-year-old Egyptian obelisk can teach us about data backup, archiving and preservation of our history — and why it's critical that we get started now.

In this case study, a financial services company freed up employees mired in e-discovery requests by turning to a better data archiving solution.

Organizations need to set up policies around the use of social networking apps like Facebook and Twitter, just as they did with e-mail in the 1990s.

As storage vendors debate encryption key management, experts weigh in on steps you can take to protect your data now.

If you think you've got data storage headaches, wait till you see what the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration is facing.

It will take a whole lot of effort to get end-to-end data security, but it has to be done.

The global financial meltdown and Democratic control of the White House and Congress will likely mean new corporate accountability regulations — and more work for storage administrators.

One small business had its backup problem solved, thanks to Yosemite Technologies.

Bacula just might be the enterprise-ready open source backup solution you've been looking for.

E-Discovery systems pose unique challenges for storage architects if they want to keep up with data growth, performance and backup and recovery demands.

For enterprises that rely on Sharepoint, Microsoft's popular collaboration platform, and want the most reliable backup and restore solution, a third-party utility is probably their best bet.

With their ability to reduce storage needs, storage optimization technologies are gaining favor with end users.