When virtual tape arrived on the scene a few years ago, many storage managers dismissed it as a niche product not sturdy enough for enterprise-class backups. Now this New Data Center technology, which ...

Making good on an acquisition from last year, data storage specialist Pure Storage Inc. today launched ObjectEngine, a data protection and recovery system for cloud and flash environments.

Those of us old enough may remember the heyday of the text adventure game genre from the first time around. London-based Magnetic Scrolls was an early pioneering company producing titles for the first ...

Computerworld QuickStudies In comparison, hard drive storage combined the machine and the medium into a single piece of hardware, gaining speed and simplifying access. But it also drove up storage ...

UNIX version 4 is quite special on account of being the first UNIX to be written in C instead of PDP-11 ASM, but it was also ...

As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. Everything people see now has been here before, and the cycle continues. This adage also applies to technology. What people see now as novel ...

Q: A few years ago, I read a column where you said 60% of recovery operations from tape failed. Is that still true? — H.B., Atlanta A: No. At least I don’t think so. However, let’s look at the problem ...

Fujifilm’s 40TB tape expands archival capacity without forcing enterprises to redesign infrastructureOffline storage remains ...

VALHALLA, NY, November 7, 2007 – Fujifilm today announced the Fujifilm Tape Tracker, a unique, high performance data asset management solution that improves the security and shipping of data tape ...

Wait a moment — have I stepped into a time machine? We all know that magnetic tape is so….yesterday. Isn’t all storage these days on solid-state or hard-disk drive (HDD) memory? The answer is yes, it ...