LTFS

What’s Ahead for LTO

With licenses now available for the still-under-development LTO-6, the next step for LTO tape is in progress. As the LTO roadmap shows, data center managers have a lot to look forward to when it comes to the future of...

Vendors Showing Support for LTFS

IBM’s Linear Tape File System, or LTFS, is just a year old, but it already has proven that you can teach an old dog—in this case, tape—new tricks. In fact, the IT cognoscenti predict that LTFS will give tape...

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...

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.