The company is hoping to increase its storage area network (SAN) installed base from the 400 sites it currently counts worldwide, and push its Virtual enterprise disk and tape businesses. The storage specialist claims its virtual disk architecture...
Despite the continued importance of backup and recovery software to all sizes of business, the market players - including Legato, despite its inappropriately named OpenTape format - have done nothing to allow businesses to swap vendors.
Fundamentally, the company [is going] back to focus on its core strengths which are in tape, tape libraries, enterprise disks and SAN," Martin said. The once pure-play tape storage company found itself dabbling in the new areas of video tape and...
At the same time the HP Surestore Tape Library 10/100 can scale from 3.2Tb to 10Tb and supports several tape formats. On the hardware side HP's announcement concentrated on its Surestore 181GB small footprint disk drive that can scale from 37 to...
After 10 minutes trying to explain what it looked like, they fetched the person who normally changed the backup tape. The user pointed to the 3.5" floppy disk drive and inside was the business card CD ROM.
One reason that recovery times can be long is that most companies still rely on tape back-up systems as the primary means to resume operations, said Stephen Higgins, EMC's director of business continuity marketing.