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 ...

Companies thirsting for more robust tape backup systems will have plenty of choices in the months ahead as three tape technologies emerge. As data accumulates with increasing speed on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last month we looked at a few methods for backing up data. This month we will discuss what types of data backup systems are currently available. While it is possible to backup data directly to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quantum, which stopped selling hard disks in 2000 but continues to sell networked storage systems, will begin selling hard disk-based backup systems, the company said this week. The DX30 acts like the ...

Like many IT executives, Eric Eriksen, chief technology officer at New York-based Deloitte Consulting, would like tape to just go away. The added cost of managing tape backup systems, slow and ...

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 ...