Tape strategies vs. ransomware. If you are considering tape as part of your ransomware strategy, don’t send backups directly to tape. Tape drives write data at a certain speed and no slower.

Still, Martin's backup effort included Eminem's raw 24-track tapes, containing all of the assorted vocals, instruments, beats and other sounds captured in isolation.

Tape Backup: Did You Know That ... Reels the Size of a Pizza. The first tape reader/recorder had reels the size of a pizza and its drive was as big as a refrigerator. A single tape often reached 1,200 ...

One uses a magnetic tape of width 8mm with a dual reel cartridge while the other uses a half inch magnetic tape with a single reel cartridge. Although discontinued, the AIT Tapes are still popular in ...

One new appliance is Idealstor&'s FrankeNAS, which is a disk-to-disk storage and backup device that takes backup tape out of the equation. The device uses hard disks both in a RAID array and in a ...

Druva, which to this point has been known for data protection and backup in the cloud for PCs, laptops and mobile devices, announced a new server backup ...

Magnetic tape is a storage method still used today, with the manufacturers behind Linear Tape-Open (standard) shipping 152.9 exabytes of tape in 2023.

But that isn't stopping vendors from trying to keep tape out of the data center. This month, for instance, San Jose, Calif.-based Yosemite Technologies introduced new storage backup software that ...

Let’s say someone botched the index duplication process (missed a particular backup jobs index). Now there is a need to restore from that set of tapes. Does ...

When the data breach occurred, he said his administration was unaware of the backup tape transportation plan. “Unfortunately, there should have been a different way to handle those backups in place.

Tape deemed the best medium for backup on board the Antarctic research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough with Quantum’s Scalar i3 chosen in a fully-redundant deployment ...