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Speeding up and improving tape to keep it part of the data center
The march of time is constantly producing new technology and outmoding the tools that came before. This progression has had a significant impact on data creation and management, producing files faster than many firms can keep up with and... -
Knowing when to destroy is the key to better document safety
There many threats that can impact the data center at any given moment. These include losses, thefts, power outages, hackings, internal errors and many more problems, but companies need to be prepared for all of them. One of the... -
Businesses are under a lot of stress to make systems work
Getting the best performance and the most value out of existing infrastructure is one of the agenda that organizations are always trying to push. -
Securing corporate assets takes on a new urgency
The rise of big data and cloud computing has put a lot of companies in a bad position. Rapid adoption of technology that corporations didn’t completely understand or need at the time of deployment has caused a plethora of... -
Debunking the Myths about Tape Storage
Google they keywords “tape storage myths,” and you’ll turn up no less than 1,780,000 results. While certainly not all of these results are relevant, the sheer volume of listings speaks to the fact that there’s no shortage of myths... -
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. -
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. -
New Study Shows Tape Still a Good Choice for Archival Data.
The results of a study by Fujifilm have been released that show Barium-Ferrite (BaFe) tape can preserve data reliably for more than 30 years. -
Hybrid Hard Drives Are Not Ready for Data Centers
The recent release by hard disk maker Seagate of it’s Momentus XT Solid State Hybrid Drive—a disk drive that combines platter and flash memory storage in the same box—holds a lot of promise, but don’t expect to see its...
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