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4 Irrefutable Facts that Prove Tape Is More Reliable Than Disk

Tape’s reliability as a long-term storage medium already has plenty of proof to back it up. Now, we can add to that growing body of evidence some scientific facts.

What’s Your Data Worth? Only Time Will Tell

Data is one of your organization's most valuable assets, but the value of that asset will depreciate over time. And only when you know the value of that data can you create effective retention schedules to organize and access...

LTFS and LTO-5: Tape Acting Like Tape, Only Better

Tape and disk still each offer relative advantages as part of a good balanced storage solution. By improving the usability of tape, LTFS and LTO-5 are making for a better storage solution overall.

LTFS: The Basics

LTFS has been lauded by industry experts like W. Curtis Preston and George Crump. We take a look at Linear Tape File System—what it is, what’s cool about it and why some say it helps tape act like disk.

5 Ways to Build a Better Retention Policy

There is no doubt that developing a retention policy that works for your business is a complex endeavor. Here are 5 tips to help get you started.

Why B&L Is Looking Forward to Symantec Vision 2011

Archiving is part of the solution for alleviating the challenges and costs of managing production catalogs bloated with inactive data. I’m looking forward to discussing this issue in more detail at the upcoming Symantec Vision 2011 conference in Las...

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...

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.

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.