Looking at archiving lots of individual projects when they are completed. Generally these are large (50-500GB) and may get larger as more HD projects come in.<BR><BR>We are looking at ways to archive ...

On Monday, StorageTek will launch its BladeStore Disk System, which makes use of ATA disk drives from Maxtor to provide 800 Gbytes of backup storage, said Thomas Major, vice president and general ...

Despite a variety of back-up systems and media, Sony proves tape provides best value. Tape backup systems predate personal computers and refuse to die. In fact, based on the new Sony StorStation I’ve ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mention Shakespeare and everyone spouts “To be or not to be.” Mention backup, and the question becomes, “To tape or not to tape?” Is tape dead, or do tape-based backup systems still have a place in ...

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 ...

I'm asking this on behalf of my father:<BR><BR>I am responsible for a medium sized office with 50 users running Windows and mainframe apps. We have a dual processor Dell PowerEdge 4400 running NT 4.0 ...

A federal district court has ruled that a consulting firm did not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act when performing maintenance on StorageTek tape backup ...

Cloud backup might not replace tape, but it can be useful in a wide range of places -- if you know how to use it A couple weeks ago, I delved into the challenges of trying to use the cloud to replace ...