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 ...

As data storage needs have grown over the years, so has the development of new technologies, such as Microsoft's Project Silica and diamond optical discs, which can make it easier to store large ...

Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud, on disk drives, and optical disks, but each has some drawbacks. Long-term storage—archiving—requires a very different approach than backup and recovery ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with backup ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, today announced that its Global Data Environment software now incorporates data on any storage option - ...

These 10 data storage startups are tackling disaster recovery and archiving, data protection, and high-speed and secure file sharing -- and even cutting the cost and upping the performance of ...

Quantum has long been involved in cold storage (object storage, tape and backup appliances), its high speed file system (StorNext) and intelligent NAS. With recent acquisition of CatDV media asset ...

Magnetic tape is seeing something of a revival as a storage medium. The need to protect data against malware, as well as renewed interest in disaster recovery and business continuity, have put tape ...

Disk-based arrays, optical drives and virtual tape libraries have pushed tape out of data centers and server closets as a way to do backups, and new cloud-based storage technologies are threatening to ...

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Quantum Corp. announced yesterday that it’s suing Imation Corp. to stop Imation from selling what it says are unqualified data storage tape cartridges based on Quantum’s digital linear technology (DLT ...