One of the most tedious and complex jobs in the world of IT is data backup. Not only is it complex, but the use of mechanical Tape loaders make the system very prone to breakage and the Tapes ...

The company Wednesday introduced three devices based on DAT72-format tape drives, said Tim Diefenthaler, director of enterprise servers and storage at Gateway. "Because of all the servers we sell, ...

Ok, I need some help finding a good tape autoloader for some new servers. We will be running BackupExec as the software on another backup server.<BR><BR>We will have 4 servers. I want each autoloader ...

The new Magnum 1x7 tape autoloader from the Boulder, Colo., tape drive vendor includes a single LTO2 (linear tape open technology) drive and room for seven tape cartridges in a 2U, rack-mount unit, ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

Anne Rawland Gabriel is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Striking just before a distant third ...

It’s no secret: IT pros absolutely love to hate tape. I’ve remarked on that fact in this column several times over the past few years, and it’s no less true now than it was any of the other times I’ve ...

Iomega on Wednesday launched an autoloading version of its REV backup kit that uses hard-disk cartridges in place of tape. The REV Autoloader 1000 is a desktop PC-sized box that contains up to ten ...