If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

I'm part of a team standing up a new server farm. The team has no plan for backups. I'm trying to convince them that we need to use both SAN-based snapshots and a tape library to do backups right.

If you are looking for the right software to ease your backup pain, look no further. Despite advances in the size and speed of tape backup hardware, in manycases the offerings just do not cut the ...

So we had a purely physical server environment and were trying (note the word 'trying') to use Acronis Backup and Recovery, which was terrible. Fast forward a couple months and we are now looking at a ...

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 ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

While technologies exist to vastly improve backup and recovery processes, many enterprises have delayed modernizing their backup infrastructure. Now a confluence of factors – greater storage demands, ...

The Milpitas, Calif.-based tape drive and automation vendor unveiled the latest iteration of its midrange tape technology, DLT-S4, which provides high-capacity backups on what company officials say is ...

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 guess we have to look at disaster recovery, when it comes to tapes, in order of priorities. So, if we're talking about your most critical applications nowadays -- your most critical data -- tape ...

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, ...

A consortium of companies supporting a tape back-up standard called Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium has introduced the second generation of its technology. The consortium, made up of IBM, ...