Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) cannot afford to lose information. Imagine a dynamic and competitive SMB losing momentum if important information should suddenly disappear as a result of a stolen ...

Proposed standards for protecting data on disk or tape are gathering steam within the IEEE and could be supported in products this year, according to proponents. Such standard technology could go a ...

Only 200 tapes held the 30 terabytes of data comprising San Mateo Credit Union’s entire business backup. The Redwood City, Calif.-based credit union, which serves close to 75,000 customers and holds ...

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 ...

Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud, on disk drives, and optical disks, but each has some drawbacks. Long-term storage—archiving—requires a very different approach than backup and recovery ...

Tape drives might seem like old news, but according to Spectra Logic Corp., they’re a part of the modern data solution. Now reaching its 25th anniversary, the company focuses on tape-based solutions ...

As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. Everything people see now has been here before, and the cycle continues. This adage also applies to technology. What people see now as novel ...

Data growth rates are on the rise -- approaching more than 160 zettabytes by 2024, according to an International Data Corporation study. Not surprisingly, large cloud service providers are scrambling ...

The gospel of disk has been preached for so long now that disk seems to be the inevitable choice for backup technology. But observers throughout the tech world say there still are plenty of reasons to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Avid Technology will resell storage technology company Spectra Logic’s products, offering clients ...

While the future of storage on your laptop is undoubtedly solid state, it’s more difficult to predict how the huge tranches of data in server farms will be housed in the future. Recent suggestions, ...

The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question.