Browsing: offsite tape storage

Three Ways Tape Beats Out Disk Storage

Data can be both a blessing and a curse. Without enough data, your business can’t thrive, it can’t compete and it can’t survive. Data is the fuel that drives businesses forward. But too much data presents problems. You need to have a reliable solution in place to store and backup [...]


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Dinner Party and Disaster Recovery

Think about how much fun you had at your last dinner party.  Good food, along with clever and engaging conversation, marks a successful event.  Once in a while, clever conversation turns from current events or the local sports team to something a bit heavier.  Along with a bottle of wine, [...]


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Tape’s Nine Lives Aren’t Up Yet

These past six decades have been rocky for tape, as the data storage technology has endured its fair share of triumphs and bumps in the road all while remaining among the most popular means of housing enterprise information. Along the way tape’s proven to be not unlike a cat, as [...]


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Tale of the Tape: Why the Technology is Going Strong

Tape technology celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2012. It has spent much of that time as a top option for companies looking for a robust data backup, storage or archiving strategy. And although other technologies have come along and attempted to steal tape’s thunder, the technology is still going strong into [...]


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Life’s Certainties: Death, Taxes and IT Disasters

The old adage says that death and taxes are the two constants you can count on in life. But from an enterprise perspective, however, there’s one more that should be added to the list: IT disasters. Unexpected power outages, networks get knocked off line and natural disasters leave a mess [...]


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