IBM announced its TS1170 magnetic tape drive, supporting storage capacities up to 50TB native and higher capacities with compression. The product has a native data rate of 400 MB/s and has a 12Gb SAS ...

Quantum, a global manufacturer of tape backup and data archive solutions, recently released the Quantum DLT VS160, a tabletop, half-high form-factor tape drive. The device is part of the company's DLT ...

If you’ve got a mountain of digital data to store but don’t necessarily need to access it every day, tape cartridges are the way to go. Twelve terabytes of storage will set you back about $100 these ...

SSD speed with tape's low cost and reliability. A match made in heaven or the worst of both worlds? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Magnetic tape is seeing something of a revival as a storage medium. The need to protect data against malware, as well as renewed interest in disaster recovery and business continuity, have put tape ...

The LTO-9 open standard boosts the transfer speed of magnetic tape, which seems like an improvement, but that might not make tape a more attractive option for backup. Magnetic storage tape has’t been ...

Tape technology is an oldie but a goodie, and just had its best year ever. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Tape storage never ...

As do other vendors of tape storage drives and media, Sony faces the reduced market appeal of tape-based data protection. Relentless increases in the demand for storage capacity, combined with the ...

Tape is the Mark Twain of data storage: reports of its death are certainly exaggerated. Tape continues to play a role in the enterprise, and not just because it is a tried and tested technology in ...