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 ...

Quantum, which stopped selling hard disks in 2000 but continues to sell networked storage systems, will begin selling hard disk-based backup systems, the company said this week. The DX30 acts like the ...

True, vendors are announcing new, lower-priced disk backup systems that can restore data more quickly than tape while almost matching tape’s traditionally low price. But according to customers, ...