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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

Another argument is that tape is cheaper. As one contributor put it: "Depending on the size of the environment and the change rate, the cost of spinning disk can quickly exceed that of physical tape.

Tape storage still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information ...

Dell Computer has released a new tape-backup system, the PowerVault 122T, a 3.5-inch thick automated tape library that can use up to eight cartridges for a maximum capacity of 320GB of uncompressed ...