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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?

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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

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 …

Tiered Storage Takes Center Stage

ABSTRACT The selection of storage technologies has never been greater. Today’s choices range from ultra-high capacity, low cost, low performance storage at one end to highly advanced data management functionality and very high levels of performance at the other. Future …

Implementing a Modern Backup Architecture

Oracle’s Tiered Data Protection Strategy ABSTRACT Fail-proof data backup and recovery is more critical to an organization’s survival than ever before as few businesses can survive for any period of time without their IT function. With so much reliance on …