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 last week bolstered its tape storage portfolio with new media, encryption and data retention capabilities, as well as a new virtual tape library that makes backing up data a more efficient affair.

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 ...

Users of virtual tape got a boost this week with Bus-Tech Inc.’s introduction of the Mainframe Appliance for Storage for EMC Centera, which lets customers more quickly save and retrieve fixed content ...

The IT department at PinnacleHealth in Harrisburg, Pa., operates more than 300 servers, ensuring that applications are continuously available for 5,000 employees. But backing up eight terabytes of ...

Dynamic Solutions International (DSI) and B&L Associates have partnered to offer a fully integrated solution including the DSI9000 Virtual Tape Library family of solutions with B&L's data center ...

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 ...

COLUMBIA, Md.& MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 2006--Digi-Data Corporation, a leading manufacturer of high performance disk storage systems, and FalconStor(R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: FALC), ...

EMC on Monday introduced an enterprise-class virtual tape library, de-duplication of data software and enhancements to its data-protection products. EMC on Monday introduced an enterprise-class ...

The Hopkinton, Mass.-based vendor on Monday introduced the Clariion DL210, a hard drive-based array configured to act as a virtual tape library. Virtual tape libraries, or VTLs, are disk arrays ...

A peripheral unit that combines a disk cache and tape library to improve performance and eliminate cartridge waste. Also called a "virtual tape server," data intended for tape are written to the disk ...