FalconStor Updates VTL for Blazing Backups April 26, 2012
-- The latest edition of the company's pay-as-you-grow virtual tape library platform brings improved deduplication performance, scalability and security.
Quantum Debuts Scalar LTFS Appliances April 16, 2012
-- The storage company leverages the LTFS to expand the role of LTO tape in today's networked storage infrastructures.
Oracle Announces StorageTek Tape Analytics April 9, 2012
-- Oracle embraces proactive tape storage management as it announces new StorageTek software to take on IBM and Crossroads.
Spectra Logic's New Tape System Holds 3.6 Exabytes November 9, 2011
-- Storage vendor Spectra Logic launches five new products, including what it claims is the world's largest capacity storage system -- a tape library system that can store nearly 4 exabytes of data.
Imation Posts a Mixed Second Quarter July 26, 2011
-- Margin pressures on Asian-made optical media helped undercut the storage firm's bottom line.
Half of Organizations Still Use Tape June 23, 2011
-- In its annual survey of IT professionals, Sepaton finds old habits -- and old tape systems -- die hard.
HP ships LTO-5 tape drives, libraries, media March 28, 2010
-- March 29, 2010 -- Hewlett-Packard today became the second major LTO tape drive manufacturer to deliver LTO-5 Ultrium drives, as well as LTO-5 libraries and (multi-sourced) media cartridges.
Spectra Logic libraries scale to 180PB November 10, 2009
-- Spectra Logic today took the wraps off a system that scales to 45PB per library, or 180PB in a library complex. Those capacities assume a library equipped with LTO-5 tape drives and cartridges, which aren't expected until April 2010.
Lab Review: Bridging the archive-backup divide October 30, 2009
-- With the introduction of government regulations for strict archiving of particular data along with new backup technologies such as disk-to-disk backup and data deduplication, IT must now bridge that divide with a flexible archiving solution that easily integrates into current IT procedures.
Lab Review: Reducing risk via lifecycle management for backup media July 30, 2009
-- Spectra Logic is incorporating into its tape libraries advances in data protection, including encryption key management, media lifecycle management, and automated initiation of SpectraGuard Support that go beyond incremental innovations in tape density and performance.
Thales addresses encryption key management April 16, 2009
-- Thales this week announced the Thales Encryption Manager for Storage (TEMS) key management appliance. In contrast to proprietary key management systems, TEMS is currently based on the IEEE P1619.3 standard and will eventually support the Key Management Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) standard, which is expected to finalized by the end of this year.
LTO-4 encryption secures data August 1, 2008
-- Encryption is often necessary to secure data on tapes, and LTO-4 includes drive-level encryption.
Guidelines for tape media management August 1, 2008
-- Adhering to simple procedures can extend the life of your tape media and ensure data protection.
Sun, IBM to ship 1TB tape drives July 16, 2008
-- There is some big news in the world of tape this week -- big, that is, in terms of capacity.
Evaluating options for tape encryption July 10, 2008
-- Given that the pressures to encrypt data at-rest are continuing to mount, and the IEEE Secure Storage Working Group is nearly finished establishing standards for disk/tape encryption and key management, it is time to revisit some operational considerations associated with planning and policy development for tape encryption.