When will tape die?
As you may have noticed, I have a great deal of disrespect for “tape is dead” stories. To be blunt,…
Tag: VTL
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…
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…
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…
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…
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?”…