Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. If you thought magnetic tape backup was dead, you'd be wrong... with the manufacturers behind the Linear Tape-Open (standard) shipping 152.9 exabytes of ...

A few days ago, the Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium — whose member include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Quantum — officially released specifications for the next generation of the LTO Ultrium standard, ...

A recently released standard for linear tape-open—LTO-9—sets the scene for faster drives with more capacity, but are they a must-have? With the recent release of the linear tape–open 9 (LTO-9) ...

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 ...

Although various industry pundits have repeatedly predicted the imminent death of tape drives, tape backups are still irreplaceable in many business-continuity strategies. Backing up to disks may cut ...

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...