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The Tape Renaissance
Tape is Not Dead! THE BOTTOM LINE: Where is your perception of tape? If it is still mired in the out of date legacy era, it’s time to update that perception and prepare to take advantage of the many benefits …
STS Conference 2019
March 12-15, 2019 I Dallas, TX OVERVIEW: Storage Technology Showcase Conference PowerPoint Presentation. © 2019 Horison Information Strategies (Fred Moore). Download PPT
Tape Value Proposition for 2019
OVERVIEW: The magnetic tape industry has made many strides in the past decade and has several distinct benefits and advantages compared to other storage solutions which are summarized here below: Tape Value Proposition
Spectra Scales the Performance Wall
Spectra Raises the Tape Performance Bar OVERVIEW: The Spectra® Large Tape Conference (LTC; held on May 3-4, 2018 in Broomfield, CO) brought together users from the large-scale tape community for hands-on product demonstrations, in-depth technology discussions, and many networking opportunities. …
The Archival Upheaval 2018
Managing the Archive Avalanche SUMMARY: Archive storage growth and requirements seem to have no limits while tape technology continues to make tremendous strides – what timing! The future role of tape in archival storage cannot be denied and the sizeable …
LTFS Fueling the Tape Transformation 2018
Redefining the Tape Transformation ABSTRACT Since its inception, tape has been a sequential (linear) access storage device. Though this proved beneficial for backup and many “high performance data streaming applications”, the ability to randomly navigate a tape cartridge to locate …
Tape 2018: New Game. New Rules.
2018 Tape Technology Report ABSTRACT To fully address the enormous digital data challenge, the tape industry has been rearchitecting itself and the renaissance is well underway. The tape industry continues to deliver new technologies and compelling functions including unprecedented cartridge …
VIDEO: How RAIT Works
SUMMARY: The data rate for tape is improving by 22.5% MB/sec per year. One concept that is driving this throughput increase in the tape industry is RAIT (Redundant Arrays of Independent Tape). RAIT is ideal for large files that need …
Active Archive Alliance Annual Report 2017
SUMMARY: This report describes the state of the active archive market. Taking Data Archiving to the Next Level
Storage Squeeze Play
SUMMARY: As SSDs and tape continue to show rapid improvements and re-balance the traditional tiered storage hierarchy, HDDs will continue to feel more pressure. The storage squeeze play is underway, and HDDs are caught in the middle. HDDs Losing Ground …
Tape Storage Council Annual Report 2017
THE BOTTOM LINE: The tape industry has been fueled by a full decade of strong technological development and this trend shows no signs of letting up. Tape technology delivers the most reliable, safe and efficient data storage solution available. Tape …
VIDEO: What is an Active Archive?
© 2018 FUJIFILM.
Tape Performance Accelerates
ABSTRACT: With the arrival of Active Archive, much higher data rates, LTFS, RAIT, and RAO capabilities now in place, the tape industry is making significant strides in delivering much faster initial access times and throughput levels. Tape Raises the Bar …
The Tape Air Gap
THE BOTTOM LINE: Given the rising wave of cybercrime, the role of tape-based offline storage and cloud solutions taking advantage of the “Tape Air Gap” is back in style. Tape Air Gap
RAIT – Redundant Arrays of Independent Tape
Rapid Transit for Mass Storage ABSTRACT RAIT (Redundant Arrays of Independent Tape) are the tape drive equivalent of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) for disk drives. RAIT is sometimes called “tape RAID”. RAIT arrays use the same algorithms that …
Hyperscale Heat Wave
Data Centers Consume Massive Amounts of Energy ABSTRACT Data centers have become the backbone of the global economy from the server rooms that power small organizations to the large enterprise data centers hosting enormous server and storage farms. The world’s …
VIDEO: Fujifilm’s 2016 Executive Summit Keynote
© 2016 FUJIFILM.
Storage Outlook 2016
A Look Ahead at the Opportunities and Challenges Facing the Data Storage Industry ABSTRACT Regardless of the strategic path taken, the disruption in the storage industry over the past few years assures us that our future is taking a new …
Video: Storage Explosion with Fred Moore
ABSTRACT Fred Moore, President of Horison Information Strategies, highlights areas of concern for companies who are or soon will be dealing with the era of colossal data explosion.
Tape Reaches New Markets as Innovations Accelerate
Tape’s Continued Innovations Fuels New Markets and Use Cases ABSTRACT The tape industry continues to gain significant momentum as tape has firmly established its long-term role for effectively managing extreme data growth with new use cases. Both LTO (Linear Tape …