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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quantum has announced a new generation of its tape library offering. The storage provider this week announced its new Scalar i7 Raptor tape library, designed to handle advanced AI workloads for ...

The company's Scalar i2000 library can scale to 12 LTO or DLT tape drives, or up to 24 AIT tape drives, and up to a maximum of 400 tape cartridges in a single 19-inch rack footprint, said Matt Chew, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...