This is perhaps the first time that a disk-based technology beats an equivalent tape-based backup system. In the past, tape has proven to be far superior due to its low-cost, high-capacity and ...

In their push to change the way corporate data centers back up their data, the vendors often leave in their wake confusion as to the viability of hard disk as a tape substitute. >&gt ...

Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Starting in the 1980s ... By the late 1990s, personal computer tape backup was largely abandoned due to CD-ROMs and the ...

Currently, magnetic storage is still manufactured as hard disk drives (HDDs) but you won’t find a tape drive in a modern consumer computer. That’s not likely to change but IBM is pushing the ...

An early stand-alone data entry machine that stored data on magnetic tape for computer entry ... reminiscent of the dot-com explosion. See key-to-disk machine. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL ...

The retailer has revamped its storage and backup capabilities using a beta version of Windows Server 2003 R2. The software has allowed Paul Smith to stop using tapes to back up its data.

Maybe that’s why LTFS has failed to set the world on fire; there are just too many disk vendors who see it ... seriously and explanations of how tape NAS works and who sells products.