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