Tape libraries recently experienced a dramatic evolution, changing from monolithic brontosaurs that you had to carefully size according to present and future demands, into more congenial devices, ...

An IBM Diamondback tape library has been installed at CERN’s data center in Geneva, Switzerland. In a post on LinkedIn, ...

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 ...

As data storage needs have grown over the years, so has the development of new technologies, such as Microsoft's Project Silica and diamond optical discs, which can make it easier to store large ...

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 ...

In a move to attract lower-end users, Overland Storage Inc. has announced the latest version of its ARCvault autoloaders and tape libraries based on Linear Tape Open (LTO) technology. The ARCvault 12 ...

The Simi Valley, Calif.-based storage vendor, one of the industry's few independent tape library vendors after Sun's acquisition of StorageTek and Quantum's acquisition of ADIC, has gone through a ...

IBM Corp. is stressing security and sustainability with today’s announcement of a tape library for archival storage use that can be physically air-gapped to protect against ransomware and that the ...

So, my trusty Dell TL2000 LTO4 SAS tape library in the server rack at home has given up the ghost after 10+ years of daily backups - the picker isn't aligning correctly. I'm a little nervous about all ...

Spectra Logic has just announced their behemoth Spectra Cube, a modern tape storage library with a frankly insane 75PB of data capacity. 75 petabytes = 75,000 terabytes, or 75,000TB. Mammoth. The new ...

Sepaton last week upped the stakes on virtual tape libraries with the introduction of a larger capacity system that protects petabytes of data. The S2100-ES2 Series 750 VTL scales to 1.2PB of ...

Woke up this morning and did my usual 5 minute check that our weekend backup copies are running. We have Commvault and a Dell TL4000 library with a pair of LTO5 drives and go D2D2T so the backups ...