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IBM storage keeps tape alive and kicking
News The company claimed that its TS1130 tape drive is the world's fastest 1TB storage tape drive. Tape is a technology that many people thought had little future, but IBM is showing faith in tape as the technology of last resort.
[September 9, 2008, 17:50]
Brocade Tape Pipelining With Sun's StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager
White Papers StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager 5 (VSM5) system is the industry's leading virtual tape solution for large-scale mainframe data protection infrastructures. In addition to unmatched scalability, cost control, and availability, VSM5 supports FICON...
[March 29, 2008, 0:01]
Virtualization of Tape Storage
White Papers Disk-based virtual tape backup devices, when combined with removable tape for archiving, are a particularly effective data protection strategy, delivering the very tangible benefits of both disk and tape for securing data efficiently and cost...
[March 1, 2008, 0:02]
Data on Tape: Security Challenges in Today's z/OS Enterprise Environments
White Papers Tape storage is cost-effective, reduces the need for additional online storage capacity and safeguards data from physical disasters or viruses. For large customers with data centers and mainframe-based infrastructure, tape storage systems are vital...
[January 25, 2006, 0:01]
StorageTek launches tape for smaller firms
News StorageTek plans to unveil a tape device for mid-sized businesses on Wednesday, amid signs that tape is preserving a place in data storage. Disk storage specialist EMC recently underlined that tape systems still have their niche by announcing a...
[June 30, 2004, 9:45]
All About LTO Tapes....
Blog LTO is a magnetic tape data storage technology developed as an open alternative to the proprietary Digital Linear Tape (DLT). In the late 1990s, Quantum's DLT and Sony's Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) were the leading options for high-capacity...
[July 25, 2008, 10:04]
Magnetic tape prototype makes data leap
News Researchers at IBM's Almaden Research Center and Fuji Photo have devised a prototype storage system utilising a dual-side magnetic tape that can hold 6.67 billion bits of data per square inch. The achievement helps bolster the argument that tape...
[May 16, 2006, 9:05]
IBM backs tape with new drives
News Many in IT believe the future of storage is entirely disk and tape "is just for archiving" - but not IBM. IBM's system storage tape manager, Peter McNamara, said products like the TS7510 are proof of the continuing role of tape even in areas where...
[October 13, 2005, 13:00]
Time again for tape
News Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a century but systems administrators will be stuck with it for some time yet, according to one of Sun's top storage executives. What we're seeing is that [tape's] still the most...
[February 21, 2006, 9:00]
Quantum sharpens tape-library portfolio
News Data-storage company Quantum plans to unveil on Monday an automated storage tape system dubbed "Mako," with hopes the product will take a bite out of rival Storage Technology. Storage Tek disputed Quantum's price comparison, saying the kind of tape...
[September 29, 2003, 11:15]
'Super drive' tapes sell well
News More than 10 million data-storage tape cartridges with the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium format have been shipped since late 2000, a group of companies behind the standard said on Tuesday. Even during these times of economic uncertainty, the LTO...
[July 23, 2003, 9:08]
IBM, EMC step up storage skirmish
News The Armonk, New York company also said it has enhanced its tape storage products and is now reselling and servicing the port switch Inrange FC/9000-128 Fibre Channel Director. On the tape storage front, IBM rolled out its TotalStorage Linear Tape...
[June 13, 2001, 9:43]
ibm_sw_hh_lto3-6154_windows_x64.zip
Downloads This package supports the following driver models:IBM MAGSTAR 3490 TAPE DRIVE (for Tivoli Storage Manager) IBM MAGSTAR 3590 TAPE DRIVE (for Tivoli Storage Manager) IBM TOTALSTORAGE 3592 TAPE DRIVE (for Tivoli Storage Manager) IBM ULTRIUM TAPE...
[January 24, 2007, 6:00]
Quantum contemplates rebound
News His company, which makes a variety of data-storage products, including tape drives and disk-based systems, had been making financial progress until it was hit by a sharp drop in revenue from tape media.
[December 11, 2003, 9:45]
Sun Storagetek Virtual Storage Manager Superior Architecture Drives Value
White Papers Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager is the market leader in mainframe tape virtualization. World-class devices, control software, and integration make StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager a virtual tape system that truly delivers business value.
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
EMC Solutions for Backup to Disk: EMC Celerra LAN Backup to Disk With Symantec Backup Exec
White Papers As a complement to using tape for long-term storage, Backup to Disk (B2D) is a powerful solution for rapid recovery of mission-critical data, and it yields significant benefits over traditional backup to tape.
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
IBM to unveil encrypting tape drive
News Big Blue on Tuesday plans to unveil its IBM System Storage TS1120, designed to store and encrypt data on tape drives. IBM's TS1120 aims to allow users to encrypt data at a tape level, whether they are using Big Blue mainframes or Unix systems, for...
[September 12, 2006, 9:05]
EMC Solutions for Backup to Disk: EMC Celerra LAN Backup to Disk With Veritas NetBackup
White Papers As a complement to using tape for long-term storage, Backup to Disk (B2D) is a powerful solution for rapid recovery of mission-critical data, and it yields significant benefits over traditional backup to tape.
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager: Superior Architecture Drives Value
White Papers Sun StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager is the market leader in mainframe tape virtualization. World-class devices, control software, and integration make StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager a virtual tape system that truly delivers business value.
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Symantec announces Veritas NetBackup 6.5
News Symantec has announced what it claims to be the first product that allows IT professionals to centrally manage tape, disk and virtual machine storage. Veritas NetBackup 6.5 has a single console to manage tape and disk-based backup, data de...
[June 13, 2007, 10:33]
