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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. -
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.