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It’s Time for Tape to Go on the Offensive
In recent years, tape has become a much-maligned storage medium, with proponents of disk-only data storage having predicted the pending demise of tape for the past several years. Yet tape lives on. An… more →
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Archived Data - How Do We Manage All of Our Backup and Archive Tapes?
wrote 11 months ago: I recently read an article on Disk vs. Tape – Choosing a Data Archiving Strategy. It’s … more →
Tape Storage 2011 in Review
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wrote 1 year ago: As we near the end of the calendar year, the time seems right for a look back at the biggest stories … more →
When It Comes to Storage Tiering, Money Is Everything
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wrote 1 year ago: If data storage were free, every bit and byte could be stored alike. All data could be considered pa … more →
With Tape Storage, Everything Old is New Again
wrote 1 year ago: There was a time when tape was “it” when it came to data storage. Disk was too expensive for most st … more →
4 Tips for Storing Data Smarter
wrote 1 year ago: It’s no secret that data is “Big” these days—and it’s only getting bigger. Experts predict that we’l … more →
Top 5 Data Center Videos Worth Watching
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wrote 1 year ago: For the visual learners out there, I’ve put together a list of the top five data center videos curre … more →
Vendors Showing Support for LTFS
wrote 1 year ago: IBM’s Linear Tape File System, or LTFS, is just a year old, but it already has proven that you can t … more →
Active Archiving: The Basics
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wrote 1 year ago: If I had to put my finger on the biggest buzz for the data storage industry so far this year, I’d sa … more →
The Top 5 Blog Posts from June
wrote 1 year ago: Summer seems to have come out of nowhere this year. I thought it might be nice to look back at June … more →
How to Solve the Big Challenge of Big Data: Part 2
wrote 1 year ago: Recently, I talked about how Big Data is a challenge for companies to manage and store simply becaus … more →
How to Solve the Big Challenge of Big Data: Part 1
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wrote 1 year ago: Managing Big Data environments is becoming a big headache for organizations of every size. And becau … more →
The Business Case for Active Archiving on Tape
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wrote 1 year ago: We all know that organizations are struggling to deal with a deluge of data these days. It’s also no … more →
With Tape, Think Resurgence, Not Requiem
wrote 1 year ago: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the declaration of the death of tape. That hoary assertion i … more →
Managing Inactive Data
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wrote 2 years ago: It seems like no matter where I go lately or what I read, someone’s talking or writing about the dat … more →
The Economics of Tape
wrote 2 years ago: In recent posts, I’ve mentioned tape’s relatively low cost as one advantage of this data storage med … more →
LTO-5: Changing the Way You Look at Tape
wrote 2 years ago: In case you needed more proof of tape’s ongoing role in the data storage world, you’ll find it in a … more →
6 Reasons Why Tape Is the Best Medium for Long-term Storage
wrote 2 years ago: In a recent post, I talked about the fact that we no longer need to defend tape’s right to exist in … more →
The Epsilon Data Breach: What the Rest of Us Can Learn
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wrote 2 years ago: Last week’s announcement of a data breach at e-mail marketing firm Epsilon has generated both signif … more →
It's Time for Tape to Go on the Offensive
wrote 2 years ago: In recent years, tape has become a much-maligned storage medium, with proponents of disk-only data s … more →
