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 ...

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, ...

Just ask any system administrator and most will agree that tape backups tend to be rather slow and cumbersome. Even with automated, robotic "tape libraries", the hassle of taking and restoring backups ...

Spectra Logic unveiled the Spectra T120, a new entry-level version of its tape library aimed at helping boost the company's midrange market offerings. The company followed up with the release of its ...

PHOENIX -- April 5, 2004 -- EMC Corporation today announced the EMC CLARiiON Disk Library, creating a new option for high-speed backup and recovery. The CLARiiON Disk Library offers the immediate ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. During the last few years, disk-based backup systems have ...

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 ...

To help companies handle data backup and recovery tasks, storage specialist EMC plans next week to unveil a product that is based on disk drives but acts as a tape device. EMC is calling the new ...

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 ...

Cinegy’s Igor Petrov looks at the arguments for and against tape and disk as a storage medium. At the beginning of the 21st century, hundreds of articles were written on the topic of ‘tapes versus ...

EMC Corp. on Monday will announce a new line of storage arrays designed to let customers replace tape-based backup systems with faster disk-based devices. The new line, called the Clariion Disk ...