My favorite source of numbers for the tape industry used to be the Santa Clara Consulting Group. They’d been tracking the use of tape in the backup and recovery industry since 2008 and had been a ...

When virtual tape arrived on the scene a few years ago, many storage managers dismissed it as a niche product not sturdy enough for enterprise-class backups. Now this New Data Center technology, which ...

Many businesses typically transport backup tapes to an off-site location for safekeeping. One fail-safe solution, however, is to back up data over the Internet. LiveVault has been working with Iron ...

Backup tapes have been used for decades in the corporate environment for business continuity or disaster recovery. Individual tapes typically contained a snapshot of the company’s documents and ...

Backup tapes have been used for decades in the corporate environment for business continuity or disaster recovery. Individual tapes typically contained a snapshot of the company’s documents and ...

Tape is the Mark Twain of data storage: reports of its death are certainly exaggerated. Tape continues to play a role in the enterprise, and not just because it is a tried and tested technology in ...

Iron Mountain Inc. is advising its customers that current, commonly used disaster recovery processes do not address increased requirements for protecting personal information from inadvertent ...

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 ...