Tape Tag Index

LTO technology has been around for many years, and numerous vendors sell products built around it. With LTO-5 released this year and LTO-6 on the horizon, how does an enterprise chose from the myriad product choices?
Tags : tape, Buying Guide, Spectra Logic, LTO, LTO-5

IBM's venerable storage portfolio includes tape, disk, SAN and NAS. Even more important than the hardware, however, is the intelligence Big Blue offers to easily and efficiently manage  enterprises' ever increasing storage needs.
Tags : NAS, SAN, IBM, Buying Guide, disk, tape

Long known for its tape automation products, Quantum has added a large disk-based portfolio to satisfy enterprises' preferences.
Tags : disk-based backup, disk, Quantum, tape, backup, deduplication

From hybrid hard disk drives and HPC to tape and midrange neglect, storage analysts weigh in on what they love and hate in the industry today.
Tags : cloud computing, storage technologies, midrange, HDD, HPC, tape, dedupe, backup

Just when tape was (once again) left for dead, big data has arrived to save the day.
Tags : tape, big data, backup

Last week, Spectra Logic held a press and analyst day in Boulder, Colo. These 10 highlights stood out among the news, technology trends and company's pure ambition.
Tags : active archive, Oracle, archive, backup, tape, big data, disk

With its hard error rate, low power consumption and cooling costs, and cost per TB, tape remains the best medium for long-term storage. Like any medium, however, tape has a life span and associated limitations.
Tags : archiving, tape, tape backup, LTO, Imation, life cycle, LTO-5

Tape migration is one of the biggest issues with which storage admin are grappling. It's both difficult and costly, but it is imperative to begin the process with your eyes open, and sooner rather than later.
Tags : tape backup, storage migration, tape

Everyone hates tape back up, but tape works. Tape is here, unfortunately, to stay a while longer.
Tags : Top 10, backup, tape, backup and recovery, tape backup

There are many ways to lower the costs associated with storage. Here are a handful of tips for making storage more cost efficient.
Tags : thin provisioning, tape, data storage, virtualization, deduplication

Oracle EVP John Fowler praises flash and tape.
Tags : Flash, tape, disk, tape storage, data storage

Enhancements to the Mainframe Data Library (MDL) provide mainframe Virtual Tape Library (VTL) functionality to small to medium mainframe environments.
Tags : tape, MDL, Mainframe Data Library

IDC analyst Noemi Greyzdorf looks at alternatives ranging from scale-out file-based systems to traditional tape archives.
Tags : archiving, LTO, data retention, tape

Oracle added LTO-5 tape support to its StorageTek tape libraries and drives, boosting its biggest library system to 150PB of capacity.
Tags : Tape Library, tape, tape storage, StorageTek, Oracle

The $700,000 order is the largest in the company's XLS Libraries history.
Tags : tape storage, Enterprise Library, Tape Library, tape

Hitachi will resell FalconSto VTL with deduplication integrated with the Hitachi Adaptable Modular Storage 2000 family.
Tags : VTL, deduplication, tape

Tape penetration in data centers remains very high, but disk is still a good compliment to tape.
Tags : tape, backup, data storage, archive, disk

With the forthcoming arrival of LTO-5, the data center has a vehicle for the consolidation of enterprise storage and a means to comply with a limited recovery window.
Tags : data storage, tape, LTO-5

The entry-level LTO-5 StorageLoader has eight tape cartridge slots for up to 24-TB of capacity.
Tags : tape, Tape Library, LTO-5, backup

Quantum has introduced the Scalar i40 for the first-time library user with a base capacity of 25 slots (one better), but with capacity on demand scalability to 40 slots. Likewise, the Scalar i80 is initially configured with 50 slots (two better) and scalability to 80 slots.
Tags : Quantum, tape, data storage, backup

With the cooperation of scientists from Fujifilm, IBM has recorded data onto magnetic tape with a density of 29.5 billion bits per square inch – almost 39 times the data density of LTO-4, today’s most popular tape product.
Tags : data storage, Fujifilm, tape, IBM

Index Engines' new tape assessment program helps organizations manage historical backup tapes.
Tags : backup, data, historical, data storage, tape

Tapes have been the backbone of data center backup for generations. What comes next?
Tags : data storage, backup, data security, tape, storage networking

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

New products from Spectra Logic and Quantum show that tape isn't dead yet.
Tags : archiving, disk drives, tape, backup, VTL

An old data storage technology is providing Sun Microsystems with a surprising source of growth.
Tags : Oracle, IBM, data storage, tape, Sun Microsystems

Data tapes have limits and a finite lifespan, and — if you care about your data — you better know what they are.
Tags : Imation, backup data, tape, Storage, tape storage, tape backup