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 ...

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 ...

A storage array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks or SSDs while continuing to use the existing tape backup ...

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 ...

Readers of my work know that I am something of a tape evangelist. Simply put, the zettabytes of data that are amassing in the digital universe over the next few years will require tape storage: there ...

So, my trusty Dell TL2000 LTO4 SAS tape library in the server rack at home has given up the ghost after 10+ years of daily backups - the picker isn't aligning correctly. I'm a little nervous about all ...

As data backup and recovery takes on increased importance, companies are moving from tape to new technologies. Compared to hot areas like security or wireless, data backup and restore may have seemed ...