Linear tape (not-so) Open?

Something I missed at the end of May: troubles in LTO-land. According to The Register, Fujifilm has unleashed some sueballs…

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10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes

Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…

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Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability

In 2013 I undertook the endeavour to revisit some of the topics from my first book, “Enterprise Systems Backup and Recovery: A Corporate…

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LTO-7 and the Streaming Conundrum

The LTO consortium has announced: That the LTO Ultrium format generation 7 specifications are now available for licensing by storage mechanism…

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Tales from the trenches – Tape

I’m back in a position where I’m having a lot of conversations with customers who are looking at infrastructure change.…

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Basics – Tape capacity and compression

Tape capacity. It should be straight forward, but many people tend to look at only the biggest, most optimistic numbers,…

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FUDtasia

I’m in a training course for a disk-only backup product, and in the introductory material, there’s a distinct message: tape…

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Ongoing trends with tape

When I first started in backup and recovery, my primary backup medium was DDS-1 tapes, distributed across probably 15 servers…

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Why tape and dedupe just don’t mix

In “Tape and dedupe: So not happening • The Register“, Chris Mellor asks: Why haven’t more vendors followed CommVault in…

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Adherents to the Repeated Meme

How often have you heard these two memes? “Tape Sucks” “Tape is dead” Oh it just goes on and on,…

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