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The Business Case for Active Archiving on Tape
The numbers speak volumes on this one. And if you’re trying to start a conversation about active archiving in your organization, simply quantifying what you’re spending to manage inactive data in production is a surefire way to get some... -
With Tape, Think Resurgence, Not Requiem
The discussion is no longer about disk versus tape but about the significant role that tape plays in today’s data center, and how ongoing innovation will secure its role in the data center of the future. And that's why... -
Managing Inactive Data
An estimated 60 to 90 percent of production catalogs is inactive data. How do we get a handle on this growing mountain of information? We think archiving is the answer. -
The Economics of Tape
For some business needs and data segments, the need to achieve rapid recovery time objectives will outweigh the cost benefits of tape. But for other business requirements and data segments—specifically for long-term storage and archiving, as we’ve said—intelligently incorporating... -
LTO-5: Changing the Way You Look at Tape
LTO-5 is changing what have been accepted facts about tape in our industry for some time. As a result, here are some of the new facts of life when it comes to tape. -
6 Reasons Why Tape Is the Best Medium for Long-term Storage
As companies store more data for longer timeframes thanks to regulatory, audit and analytic requirements, we think it pays to take the long-term view. -
The Epsilon Data Breach: What the Rest of Us Can Learn
Organizations would be wise to consider offline storage for tier 1 data now—before the failure to do so makes an Epsilon out of your organization. -
It’s Time for Tape to Go on the Offensive
It's time to stop defending tape and start focusing proactively on the benefits tape brings to the enterprise and the complementary role it plays to other storage media. -
Know Before You Go (Down): Will You Be Able to Get Back Up?
Given that we’re retaining data on tape longer than ever before, will we be able to restore from these tapes in the face of a disaster? -
5 Reasons Why Google Uses Tape for Disaster Recovery
I blogged recently about Why the Google Incident Proves Relevance of Tape Storage. Now I’d like to take it a step further and look at the top five reasons why I think Google uses tape backup for disaster recovery.