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 ...

Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) announced a midlevel storage system that combines disk and tape in a single appliance, the Pathlight VX 2.0. The Pathlight VX 2.0 uses policy-based data ...

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, ...

To help companies handle data backup and recovery tasks, storage specialist EMC plans next week to unveil a product that is based on disk drives but acts as a tape device. EMC is calling the new ...

"Tape is Dead" may be a common statement, but it just does not hold true to the reality. Most tape and tape library companies are reporting strong sales growth over the past couple years. User studies ...

Despite the many advantages of disk storage for backing up data, shipments of tape storage keep growing because for some jobs, tape is best. It might surprise some that despite the popularity of disk ...

The NetApp NearStore VTL products add some new wrinkles to the technology it acquired in the Alacritus buyout. Virtual tape libraries employ disk-based backup storage that emulates the behavior of ...

True, vendors are announcing new, lower-priced disk backup systems that can restore data more quickly than tape while almost matching tape’s traditionally low price. But according to customers, ...

To help companies handle data backup and recovery tasks, storage specialist EMC plans to unveil a product that is based on disk drives but acts as a tape device. EMC is calling the new product a "disk ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. During the last few years, disk-based backup systems have ...

I have seen a few surveys recently that tape penetration in data centers remains very high, less than 15% of data centers have become tapeless, of course that means that 85% of environments still have ...