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 ...

My workplace has about 6TB of data in our weekly full backups, which we backup D2D2T and send offsite weekly. We have mostly Windows systems with about 70% virtualized with VMWare and Hyper-V. Since ...

Full Backup Window Fri9pm-Sunday Realistically looking at 24 hours to get all 55tb to tape. I am concerned with how many drives I will need, the network from drives to server, and the back-end disk to ...

The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question.

DPX 4.14 brings simplified web-based tape library management, automated event cleanup, and smarter job scheduling to simplify long-term data protection and strengthen hybrid backup strategies.

Data Domain announced this week virtual tape library options for its series of disk-based backup appliances. The company added virtual tape library emulation to its DD400 Enterprise Series Data Domain ...

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 ...

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, ...

StorageTek unveiled a tape device for midsize businesses on Wednesday, amid signs that tape is preserving a place in data storage. The tape back-up specialist also introduced software for monitoring ...

The guy who guided StorageTek when it developed and shipped its StreamLine tape library, who persevered through Sun’s ownership of StorageTek, and then wound up in Oracle, which depends on StreamLine ...