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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. -
Turns Out, Tape Doesn’t Suck.
As the recent snafu at Google with their gMail product has shown, tape definitely has a place in the modern data center. We'll show why the sentiment that "Tape Sucks!" is untrue and why "Turns Out, Tape Doesn't Suck"... -
Why the Google Incident Proves Relevance of Tape Storage
The death of tape stroage has been talked about for 20 years, yet when a software bug got into Gmail on Feb. 28 and threatened to seriously disable the accounts of tens of thousands of users, Google used tape... -
No One Told Oracle Tape Is Dead
Pessimistic prognostications about the future of tape storage in the enterprise abound, but they don't seem to be deterring new products from coming to market or tape makers from planning for the long haul. -
The Top Five Blog Posts for January
Once again, I thought it would be nice to hightlight the top five posts (according to traffic) from January, just in case you missed them. -
How the NERSC Gets More Bang for Its Buck with Tape Storage
Not a day goes by without some critic of tape storage declaring its imminent demise, so it's refreshing to see an organization that actually embraces the technology as a robust business tool. -
How Tape Storage Will Change in 2011
Will 2011 be the year of tape? New technologies are giving tape users reason to cheer in the new year. -
A Simple Fix to Improve Performance Problems of Your Storage System
Every administrator knows that their data is ballooning and storage demands are growing. In addition to contributing to data bloat, larger files have another, yet easily fixable, detrimental effect on the performance of a storage system. -
Is Facebook Green Enough?
Does Facebook, and other tech giants, have a responsibility to the environment as they continue to expand? Or are allegations from organizations like Greenpeace, who say Facebook isn't green enough, baseless?