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 ...

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 ...

A storage array that emulates a tape library. A virtual tape library (VTL) enables the storage medium to be switched from tapes to disks or SSDs while continuing to use the existing tape backup ...

The Hopkinton, Mass.-based vendor on Monday introduced the Clariion DL210, a hard drive-based array configured to act as a virtual tape library. Virtual tape libraries, or VTLs, are disk arrays ...

Readers of my work know that I am something of a tape evangelist. Simply put, the zettabytes of data that are amassing in the digital universe over the next few years will require tape storage: there ...

So, my trusty Dell TL2000 LTO4 SAS tape library in the server rack at home has given up the ghost after 10+ years of daily backups - the picker isn't aligning correctly. I'm a little nervous about all ...