Every company has a need to back up their critical data in case their original is lost or corrupted. This need of archiving gave birth to the external data storage industry. Many leading industrial ...

Most organisations have two or three backup products deployed, while many have tapes up to 20 years old – and they don’t know the contents. Meanwhile, tape storage hardware, maintenance and staff ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

The once-thriving storage tape business has been knocked out of the running as the media of choice for backing up data, but it is expected to remain the primary technology for use in long-term data ...

Despite its relatively slow speed and overall bulkiness, tape has its strengths. After all, it’s inexpensive compared with most disks, it’s portable and has been used in data centers for years. Still, ...

Tape storage still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information ...

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HP and Sony have collaborated on the creation of a next-generation digital audio tape (DAT) format, the two companies announced Tuesday. Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as ...

Quantum and Imation, two makers of tape-backup products, have agreed to settle their lawsuits, ending a rancorous spat that had raised antitrust accusations and hobbled a newer tape standard. The two ...

I have a DDS3 tape that was originally used on a server with NT4 and ArcServe 6.61. I would like to use the tape in a 2000 Server which has a Sony 9000 Tape Drive and use NT Backup. But when I try to ...

With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...

The two makers of tape-backup products have agreed to settle, ending a rancorous spat that has raised antitrust accusations and hobbled a newer tape standard. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...