Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related content. Why? Many of our …

- George Arthur Crump

Now clearly this advantage is when the data on tape has been found and just needs to be transferred back. You need to add a minute or so of seek time…

- George Arthur Crump

Tape with LTFS has several advantages over the other external storage devices it would typically be compared to. First, tape has been designed from D…

- George Arthur Crump

Tape allows for a clean sweep of data that simply doesn't need to be on any form of disk but still needs to be kept. The cost and capacity of tape ma…

- George Arthur Crump

As I noted in my article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention," in these situations tape is an ideal storage type. Data on t…

- George Arthur Crump

... All the drivers that started the replace-tape-with-disk movement in the first place - reliability, performance, portability and off-site data mov…

- George Arthur Crump