We recently came into a Dell Powervault 110T LTO drive and a bunch of tapes. We installed the SCSI card in our Exchange server on a PowerEdge 2650. We're using Veritas Backup Exec with the Exchange ...

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 ...

With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...

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 ...

Howdy. I have a tape that I bought back in January. It was the first tape of my backup sets. I currently have 36 tapes worth of backups. I recently found that my script that pushes jobs to BU with ...

Quantum, a global manufacturer of tape backup and data archive solutions, recently released the Quantum DLT VS160, a tabletop, half-high form-factor tape drive. The device is part of the company's DLT ...

HP have announced new tape backup products aimed at SMEs. The new StorageWorks DAT 40 and DAT 72 USB tape drives combine the cost-effectiveness of DAT with USB plug and play convenience, claimed HP on ...

The gospel of disk has been preached for so long now that disk seems to be the inevitable choice for backup technology. But observers throughout the tech world say there still are plenty of reasons to ...

My favorite source of numbers for the tape industry used to be the Santa Clara Consulting Group. They’d been tracking the use of tape in the backup and recovery industry since 2008 and had been a ...

It’s no secret: IT pros absolutely love to hate tape. I’ve remarked on that fact in this column several times over the past few years, and it’s no less true now than it was any of the other times I’ve ...

It’s days gone by, and this pilot fish runs the LAN at his site, while his co-worker is in charge of the mainframe — and they’re both responsible for backups. “After many months of driving to work ...