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 ...

Computerworld QuickStudies In comparison, hard drive storage combined the machine and the medium into a single piece of hardware, gaining speed and simplifying access. But it also drove up storage ...

The Hopkinton, Mass.-based vendor on Monday introduced the Clariion DL210, a hard drive-based array configured to act as a virtual tape library. Virtual tape libraries, or VTLs, are disk arrays ...

EMC Corp. is looking to tread on IBM’s toes after extending its virtual tape library (VTL) to cater for IBM’s mainframe community. The EMC Disk Library for mainframe (EMC DLm) is a virtual tape ...

IBM Monday unveiled its first virtual tape library for open systems and plans to release the next version of its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller virtualization engine, which pools storage resources ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

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 ...