Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) announced a midlevel storage system that combines disk and tape in a single appliance, the Pathlight VX 2.0. The Pathlight VX 2.0 uses policy-based data ...

To help companies handle data backup and recovery tasks, storage specialist EMC plans next week to unveil a product that is based on disk drives but acts as a tape device. EMC is calling the new ...

Just ask any system administrator and most will agree that tape backups tend to be rather slow and cumbersome. Even with automated, robotic "tape libraries", the hassle of taking and restoring backups ...

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 ...

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, ...

Spectra Logic unveiled the Spectra T120, a new entry-level version of its tape library aimed at helping boost the company's midrange market offerings. The company followed up with the release of its ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. During the last few years, disk-based backup systems have ...

Tape storage is one of those technological hangovers from the early days of computing, associated in the minds of many with rooms full of massive mainframe cabinets. Somewhat like the mainframe, tape ...

In October, Germany-based PoINT will launch an object storage archiving product based on disk and tape media. “Our idea is to offer on-site exactly the same thing as AWS [Amazon Web Services] offers ...

StorageTek unveiled a tape device for midsize businesses on Wednesday, amid signs that tape is preserving a place in data storage. The tape back-up specialist also introduced software for monitoring ...