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The Truth About Tape - Nine Myths to Reconsider

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removable storage

Overview It has been more than 55 years since the first commercially available tape drive was marketed to data centers. Tape drives today do not look at all like those first drives. Engineering developments through out the years have brought faster, more reliable, and higher capacity media and drives and the development shows no sign of abating. Tape's role in addressing compliance with WORM, data retention with archive, data security with encryption, data protection with safely-removable cartridges and TCO with low acquisition and operation costs is strategic in the storage hierarchy.

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Publisher	Clipper Group	File Format	PDF
Date Published	February 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Removable Storage, Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries

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Power Solutions Article: Streamlining Data Management with CommVault Simpana and Dell EqualLogic PS5500E iSCSI SANs

Ongoing data growth can present major challenges for IT organizations. The combination of CommVault® Simpana® backup-to-disk software and Dell™ EqualLogic™ PS5500E Internet SCSI (iSCSI) storage area network (SAN) arrays can...

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Dell EqualLogic

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removable storage

Whitepaper:Â EqualLogic TCO Analysis by ESG Lab

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Dell EqualLogic

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raid

Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance.

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Diskeeper

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storage management

Setting the record straight: SAN defrag is vital to storage performance

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Diskeeper

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removable storage

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American Megatrends

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removable storage

The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft does CRM, the Liberty Alliance and Scient's nadir

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Comment & Analysis

Controversial copyright laws head for the UK

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Law & Policy

Microsoft security strategy under attack

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O2 to charge £5 for 'all you can eat' roaming calls

It's very much more a retention strategy. SME users can also sign up to the scheme aimed at frequent travellers, for a £2.50 per month tariff, although they'll need to handcuff themselves to a 12-month contract.

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Mobile & Wireless
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o2

'My ERP supplier has been acquired - now what?'

Customer retention is vital in mergers as customer maintenance fees provide approximately 50 per cent of the income to the company. If customer service levels in areas such as support, training or marketing drop, this is a warning sign that your...

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Applications
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erp

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