Closing back doors to your data
Storage vendors often brag that their systems "phone home" in the event of malfunction, often before something breaks. “We call you before you realize there's a problem, telling you a component is...
View ArticleIn search of lost tapes
What should you do if the thought of losing a container full of tape cartridges keeps you awake at night?[ Mario Apicella's column is now a blog! Get the latest storage news from the Storage Adviser...
View ArticleTape is dead! Long live tape!
A few days ago, the Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium -- whose member include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Quantum -- officially released specifications for the next generation of the LTO Ultrium...
View ArticleShrink your backup window
Nobody likes to tie up resources with a long-running backup. So how do you shrink your backup window? There are many approaches, but in SAN environments, sometimes the best solution is to back up...
View ArticleAre virtual tape libraries a passing fancy?
Not long ago VTLs (virtual tape libraries) were central to any enterprise disk-to-disk tape backup strategy. Highly scalable performance and the ability to deduplicate on the fly -- usually without...
View ArticleIT infrastructure: Whatever happened to reliability?
I'd hazard a guess that more than half of the money we spend on IT infrastructure goes to ensuring uptime. Whether that takes the form of redundant power supplies, redundant disks, multicore network...
View ArticleInfoWorld review: Data deduplication appliances
Ever wonder why hard drive capacities continue to get bigger? Do you think IT has ever told management that they will need less storage capacity over the next three years? In fact, three years from...
View ArticleThe myth of 10GbE IP storage
Back in the days before 10Gbps Ethernet was available, the fact that IP-based storage like iSCSI and NFS were stuck at 1Gbps Ethernet speed was used to prove that 2Gbps and 4Gbps Fibre Channel still...
View ArticleOracle's StorageTek unit releases 5TB tape drive
Oracle's StorageTek division today announced its highest-capacity and fastest tape drive to date -- the company says the T10000C stores up to 5TB of uncompressed data and offers throughput speeds of up...
View Article4 incredibly useful steps to better backups
In all my years in IT, I can't think of an everyday task that is more universally loathed than maintaining good backups. Depending upon what size environment you're running, setting them up in the...
View ArticleOracle attacks tape management with analytics software
Tape-storage administrators will be able to get performance information and immediate directions to prevent data loss in new management software, called StorageTek Tape Analytics, that Oracle...
View ArticleBye-bye, tapes: How to get the right disk backup appliance
Although disk-to-disk backup methodologies have become incredibly popular over the past few years, the vast majority of enterprises -- large and small -- still use the same tape backups they...
View ArticleOracle announces its first scalable, entry-level tape library
Oracle today unveiled a new LTO-5 tape library targeted at small- and medium-sized businesses and remote offices that can scale from 45TB to 900TB capacity using data compression.The Oracle StorageTek...
View ArticleCloud storage: The final nail in tape's coffin
More than two years ago, I wrote about the persisting value of tape as an archival backup medium. At the time, the LTO-5 tape standard had recently been announced in an effort to stave off...
View ArticleTape storage finds new life in the enterprise and beyond
On location in Africa, a movie crew wraps up the day's shooting on a nature documentary and camera operators shut down their rigs. NAND flash cards are removed from the cameras and the scenes that were...
View ArticleVeeam announces Backup and Replication 7 for VMware, Microsoft environments
If you are a VMware fan or have been involved with server virtualization for any length of time, you've probably already come across the "green machine" marketing group from Veeam Software at VMworld,...
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How many backups are enough? One more than you planned for
Murphy's Law can hit even the best IT shops, despite all your efforts to avoid it.
View ArticleHadoop, Web 2.0 get path to tape for cheap, long-term storage
An appliance designed for Web 2.0 companies may take them back to the future with tape storage.
View ArticleThe hidden challenges of using cloud backup to replace tape
It's no secret: IT pros absolutely love to hate tape. I've remarked on that fact in this column several times over the past few years, and it's no less true now than it was any of the other times I've...
View ArticleIBM and Fujifilm show super dense storage tape for big data work
Anticipating a storage crunch spurred by big data, IBM and Fujifilm are advancing the state of art in magnetic tape with a prototype capable of storing 85.9 billion bits of data per square inch.In an...
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