Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) announced a midlevel storage system that combines disk and tape in a single appliance, the Pathlight VX 2.0. The Pathlight VX 2.0 uses policy-based data ...

In the wake of new government regulations requiring better corporate record-keeping, three top tape library vendors have confirmed that they’re working to combine inexpensive disk arrays with their ...

In their push to change the way corporate data centers back up their data, the vendors often leave in their wake confusion as to the viability of hard disk as a tape substitute. >> A new breed ...

Despite its relatively slow speed and overall bulkiness, tape has its strengths. After all, it’s inexpensive compared with most disks, it’s portable and has been used in data centers for years. Still, ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

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EMC Monday plans to announce a new line of storage arrays designed to let customers replace tape-based back-up systems with faster disk-based devices. The new line, called the Clariion Disk Library ...

In October, Germany-based PoINT will launch an object storage archiving product based on disk and tape media. “Our idea is to offer on-site exactly the same thing as AWS [Amazon Web Services] offers ...

As expected, data storage specialist EMC on Monday introduced a hard-drive based product that mimics a tape device. EMC calls the new product a "disk library." The name refers to so-called tape ...

BOULDER, Colo. Sept. 8, 2021 – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced the availability of the ninth generation of LTO technology for its family of tape ...