Today, a great number of different storage mediums exist whose purpose is to retain information in some manner. One of the oldest data storage mediums, the tape, is a linear storage system that still ...

It seems like only yesterday that data protection meant backing up your data to tape, perhaps once per day, once per week or even once per month — if the data wasn’t particularly critical. This has ...

When virtual tape arrived on the scene a few years ago, many storage managers dismissed it as a niche product not sturdy enough for enterprise-class backups. Now this New Data Center technology, which ...

The East Providence, R.I.-based Sovereign Bank purchased a DLT 8000-based tape library in October of 2002 to back up its growing data. Since then, the bank has expanded from 250 backup clients to 350, ...

Computerworld QuickStudies In comparison, hard drive storage combined the machine and the medium into a single piece of hardware, gaining speed and simplifying access. But it also drove up storage ...