Latest Magnetic tape data storage Stories
BOULDER, Colo., Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ProStor Systems, the leading developer of removable disk storage solutions, honored Tandberg Data, one of its licensee partners, for shipping more than 100,000 RDX(R) docks in less than two years. Tandberg Data achieved this milestone by supplying RDX technology to brand-name PC server OEMs, and through their own branded channel. RDX removable disk technology was developed by ProStor Systems and is licensed to Tandberg Data to manufacture, market and...
MORGAN HILL, Calif., Dec. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Cache-A Corporation, a professional video storage solutions provider, today announced that it has licensed A-Series technology from Quantum Corporation, the leading global specialist in backup, recovery and archive. Cache-A will develop future generations of A-Series storage solutions for professional video file-based workflows based on industry-standard LTO (Linear Tape Open) tape drives. A- Series technology products offer professional video...
IBM is announcing a major initiative on Monday to upgrade its computer storage products to include more then 30 new or upgraded products and services. The move culminates a three-year, $2 billion investment that involved thousands of researchers and the acquisition of eight data storage start-up companies.Despite slowing economy and continued cost-cutting efforts by many corporate clients, analysts expect sales of storage gear to continue growing as long as businesses keep collecting so...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) -- New technologies and services for businesses, governments designed to tackle massive growth and mobility of data; skyrocketing energy costs, security concerns and more demanding consumers; -- Largest information infrastructure launch ever for the company that invented the disk drive, relational database -- more than 30 new and upgraded information infrastructure technologies and services unveiled; -- $2 billion investment; three years and more than 2,500 IBM...
HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Sony Corporation today announced an agreement to create the next-generation Digital Audio Tape (http://www.datmgm.com/) format - the DAT 320 - providing improved performance and capacity over existing DAT drives. HP and Sony are jointly developing the DAT or Digital Data Storage (DDS) standard, but will separately offer their own DAT 320 tape drives and cartridges. Similar to previous generations of DAT/DDS, the DAT 320 will be an open standard, which ensures partners...
OAKDALE, Minn., July 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Imation Corp. , a worldwide leader in removable data storage, today announced its support for Sun StorageTek(TM) T10000B tape drives which provide the highest data capacity per cartridge in the enterprise tape market at one terabyte. The Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drive format utilizes Imation's proprietary Tera Angstrom(TM) technology, a proprietary coating formulation and process enabling a terabyte-capacity tape product, with Imation's...
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) again raised the bar on the storage industry with the release of the industry's first one terabyte tape storage drives. The new eco-efficient Sun StorageTek(TM) T10000B tape drive offers customers one terabyte of native storage capacity on a single cartridge for open or mainframe systems environments. The leader in tape storage automation, Sun has delivered on its commitment to best-in-breed archive innovation and continues to trump the industry with...
Latest Magnetic tape data storage Reference Libraries
A tape drive is a storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape. It is mostly used for offline, archival data storage. Tape media is generally cost efficient and has a long archival strength. In contrast to a disk drive which provides random access storage, a tape drive provides sequential access storage. This takes the tape drive a substantial amount of time between winding tape between reels and reading individual data, which is much longer than a disk drive. Consequently,...
