When will tape die?

As you may have noticed, I have a great deal of disrespect for “tape is dead” stories. To be blunt,…

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VTLs and media load/unload times

VTLs are fast, right? There’s no physical media loads or unloads associated with tape loads and unloads, after all. That’s…

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Last month’s top story

I thought that I might from now on try to do a brief comment at the start of each month…

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Carry a jukebox with you (if you’re using Linux)

A rather smart gent whom I used to work with at another company, Mark Harvey, has in his own time…

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Impact of high speed tape on backup

Back when I first started doing enterprise backup, DLT 7000 had just been introduced. There were a few systems I…

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Merits of Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)

Or, “In 5 years time will we reflect on VTLs as an example of a bad direction in data protection?”…

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