Tape storage still plays a significant role as a backup tool in network data storage even as disk prices are falling because new tape storage products from vendors such as Advanced Digital Information ...
The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been ...
People have been proclaiming that “tape is dead” for 20 years. LiveVault, one of the early pioneers of online backup, was claiming "Tape backup is so last century" back in 2003. That was quite bold, ...