Who’s Minding the Restore

Security firm Thales released a survey showing that despite high profile cases of unencrypted backup tapes going missing, more than a third of organisations still do not know if they will encrypt their backup tapes and half do...

Your computer backups and vital records are, by definition, critical to your recovery in the event of a disaster. So it is absolutely essential that they are accessible if they are ever needed in anger. Some common practices,...

33% of small to medium sized enterprises in the UK leave their back-up tapes in the office at the end of the day, negating the benefit of backing up their servers, according to a new research report entitled ‘Risky...

Tandberg Data Corporation, a supplier of data protection and archiving technologies, announced the availability of the Magnum 224 Tape Library with fourth-generation LTO® tape drive technology (LTO-4). The Magnum 224, built with...

The Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), a leading information technology (IT) analyst firm focused on information storage, security and management, today announced the availability of a new research report, VTL Adoption and Market...

HP, IBM and Quantum, the three technology provider companies (TPCs) for the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program, today announced that HP and IBM have completed the LTO Ultrium format generation 4 compliance and data interchangeability...

Backup is an operation where the data is copied to a device for preserving the data or to restore the data in case of a failure of the hard disk. Often, big corporations and mainframes have a regular backup activity where data is...

Where tape is deemed insufficient,consider other alternatives such as real-time replication to augment your tape backup solution.Replication solutions can provide for near-zero data loss and allow for immediate system and data...

Nexsan Technologies and FalconStor announced the availability of a certified enterprise-class virtual tape library solution that combines FalconStor's VTL software and Nexsan's extreme-density storage systems.The high-capacity...

When integrated media provider Techtarget asked if tape backups have become the dinosaurs of the disaster recovery world, Pierre Dorion warned readers not to jump to any conclusions. Dorion, a Phoenix-based consultant who...

With always-on broadband connectivity available to the wider business community, learn how you can get offsite backup cheaply, easily and quickly from Michael Trembath, CEO of Datalifeline.This interview was prepared by Désiré...

More than a decade ago, when we were all using VCR tapes (or video CDs) rather than DVD players, there were a few guys who came forward with a pretty nifty idea. Why not use VHS video cassette recorders as a backup solution?Tapes...

McDATA Corporation launched its new Virtual Tape Library (VTL). The VTL is a disk-to-disk-to-tape solution that enables efficient backup leveraging both disk and tape media.It improves backup and restore performance and...

With high-capacity and high-performance disk drive systems decreasing in price and increasing in resiliency, the lure of faster recovery times has led to a shift in the backup media of choice.Factors driving this shift to disk...

Techtarget (via computerweekly) asks whether tape backups are actually a thing of the past when it comes to disaster recovery.Pierre Dorion, the writer, states that tape is actually surviving, if not thriving, because of its "low...