Something I missed at the end of May: troubles in LTO-land. According to The Register, Fujifilm has unleashed some sueballs…
Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…
In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…
The LTO consortium has announced: That the LTO Ultrium format generation 7 specifications are now available for licensing by storage mechanism…
I’m back in a position where I’m having a lot of conversations with customers who are looking at infrastructure change.…
Tape capacity. It should be straight forward, but many people tend to look at only the biggest, most optimistic numbers,…
I’m in a training course for a disk-only backup product, and in the introductory material, there’s a distinct message: tape…
When I first started in backup and recovery, my primary backup medium was DDS-1 tapes, distributed across probably 15 servers…
In “Tape and dedupe: So not happening • The Register“, Chris Mellor asks: Why haven’t more vendors followed CommVault in…
How often have you heard these two memes? “Tape Sucks” “Tape is dead” Oh it just goes on and on,…