With the drop in hard drive prices, many system administrators are faced with more data to back up than before. With the drop in hard drive prices, many system administrators are faced with more data ...

Every company has a need to back up their critical data in case their original is lost or corrupted. This need of archiving gave birth to the external data storage industry. Many leading industrial ...

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 ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

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, ...

Most organisations have two or three backup products deployed, while many have tapes up to 20 years old – and they don’t know the contents. Meanwhile, tape storage hardware, maintenance and staff ...

HP and Sony have collaborated on the creation of a next-generation digital audio tape (DAT) format, the two companies announced Tuesday. Aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) as well as ...

The USB 2.0 version of the DAT 72 tape drive is list-priced at $749, compared with $599 for the DAT 40. They were expected to ship July 11. ewlett-Packard is moving to convince the channel that tape ...

Currently the company is using CA' Arcserve 10 and Sony SAIT drive. At 22MB/second it takes 36 hours to backup ONLY data* we have created and our email on two tapes. I can't move off of this tape ...