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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 …

Tape 2017: New Game. New Rules.

2017 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 …

LTFS Fueling the Tape Transformation 2017

Redefining the Tape Transformation ABSTRACT Since its inception, tape has been a sequential access storage device. Though this proved beneficial for backup and many “data streaming applications”, the ability to randomly navigate a tape cartridge to locate a specific file …

The Archival Upheaval 2017

Planning for the Archive Avalanche ABSTRACT Data centers have become the backbone of the global economy from the server rooms that power smallorganizations to the large enterprise data centers hosting enormous server and storage farms. The world’sdata centers now consume …

TSC State of the Tape Industry 2016

Industry Leading Capacity, Reliability, and Lowest Costs Are Changing the Game ABSTRACT Tape expanded its reach in 2016 effectively addressing many data intensive markets including cloud, entertainment, hyperscale data centers, High Performance Computing (HPC) and the Internet along with large-scale …

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 …

Active Archive and the State of the Industry

Innovative Solutions Drive New Markets and Use Cases ABSTRACT The Active Archive Alliance launched on April 27, 2010 as a collaborative industry association formed to educate end user organizations on the evolving new technologies that enable reliable, online and efficient …

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 …

The Oracle StorageTek VSM6

Providing Unprecedented Storage Versatility ABSTRACT Have you considered the growing complexity and challenge for enterprise data centers trying to meet their data protection, batch, primary data, and archival storage requirements? Without careful planning, each of these tasks could entail pursuing …

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 …

Tape Manifesto for the 21st Century

The Era of Modern Tape is Here TAPE TODAY Have you wondered what has been happening in the tape storage industry, if anything? Did you know? Tape is cheaper to acquire than disk, tape is less costly to own and …

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 …

Data Growth and Technology Innovations Fuel Tape’s Future

Tape Addresses New Markets as Capacity, Performance, and Functionality Reach New Levels ABSTRACT For the past decade, the tape industry has been re-architecting itself and the renaissance is well underway. Several new and important technologies for both LTO (Linear Tape …