Managing the World’s Hyperscale Data Growth SUMMARY The magnetic tape industry has made significant progress in many areas over the past 10 years. The rich technology improvements in the tape industry suggest that tape will continue to be the most …
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Building the Optimal Storage Infrastructure INTRODUCTION The selection of data storage technologies has never been more robust. Today’s choices range from ultra-high capacity, low cost storage at one end of the hierarchy to very high levels of performance and functionality …
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The Tape Renaissance Changes the Game INTRODUCTION The magnetic tape data storage industry has withstood numerous challenges from its own past performance, from the HDD industry, and mainly from those who are simply uninformed about the major transformation the tape …
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The Active Archive Becomes Integral to Your Game Plan ABSTRACT Organizations are quickly learning the value of analyzing vast amounts of previously untapped archival data. Industry studies suggest that only about 20% of all digital data is ever accessed or …
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Making Tape Data Rates Soar KEY POINT LTFS provides the tape industry with its first standard open systems file system providing easy and faster access to LTO and enterprise tape files. LTFS Redefines the Future of Tape Download PDF
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Tape Performance Accelerates INTRODUCTION 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. For …
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HDDs Losing Ground to SSD and Tape SUMMARY A fundamental shift in the storage landscape is well underway as high-performance data moves from HDDs onto flash SSD while lower activity, resiliency and archive data migrate from HDD to modern tape. …
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Making Tape Data Rates Soar ABSTRACT RAIT (Redundant Arrays of Independent Tape) are the tape drive equivalent of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) for disk drives. RAIT arrays use the same algorithms that RAID arrays have successfully employed and …
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Defense Against Cyber Crime 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
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