On Monday, StorageTek will launch its BladeStore Disk System, which makes use of ATA disk drives from Maxtor to provide 800 Gbytes of backup storage, said Thomas Major, vice president and general ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

Despite a variety of back-up systems and media, Sony proves tape provides best value. Tape backup systems predate personal computers and refuse to die. In fact, based on the new Sony StorStation I’ve ...

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 ...

Mention Shakespeare and everyone spouts “To be or not to be.” Mention backup, and the question becomes, “To tape or not to tape?” Is tape dead, or do tape-based backup systems still have a place in ...

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, ...

I'm asking this on behalf of my father:<BR><BR>I am responsible for a medium sized office with 50 users running Windows and mainframe apps. We have a dual processor Dell PowerEdge 4400 running NT 4.0 ...

Cloud backup might not replace tape, but it can be useful in a wide range of places -- if you know how to use it A couple weeks ago, I delved into the challenges of trying to use the cloud to replace ...

With the current price of hard drives I'm being asked the same question more and more. What is the difference between backing up to tape vs. backing up to a hard drive. You can rotate both daily and ...