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.

In the three or four decades since storing programs on audio cassettes has been relevant, a lot of irreplaceable personal computing history has been lost to the ravages of time and the sub-optimal ...

Index Engines last week announced one of the first systems for automating the e-discovery process of data from offline tape. The company’s eDiscovery Edition of its Tape Engine appliance automatically ...

People trying to preserve digital artifacts held on old media often not only have to contend with the media themselves decaying, but also with obscure media formats for which there’s seemingly little ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Sept. 27, 2006 —Microsoft Corp. today announced the public beta release of the Microsoft® System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) version 2 at the Storage Decisions conference in New ...

Commvault, Cohesity, Dell EMC and Veeam are just some of the vendors that led Gartner’s new 2019 Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Solutions. The Top 12 Leader Data Center Backup And ...

Data growth rates are on the rise -- approaching more than 160 zettabytes by 2024, according to an International Data Corporation study. Not surprisingly, large cloud service providers are scrambling ...