During the last several weeks I have written separately about virtualized tape technology, companies forming technology partnerships, and back-up appliances. Today, let’s look at an example of all ...

Data Domain announced this week virtual tape library options for its series of disk-based backup appliances. The company added virtual tape library emulation to its DD400 Enterprise Series Data Domain ...

IBM Monday unveiled its first virtual tape library for open systems and plans to release the next version of its TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller virtualization engine, which pools storage resources ...

Dynamic Solutions International (DSI) and B&L Associates have partnered to offer a fully integrated solution including the DSI9000 Virtual Tape Library family of solutions with B&L's data center ...

Virtual tape libraries, or VTLs, are disk arrays configured to look to the host server and the backup software as if they are physical tape libraries. Data is streamed to and recovered from the VTL as ...

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

Users of virtual tape got a boost this week with Bus-Tech Inc.’s introduction of the Mainframe Appliance for Storage for EMC Centera, which lets customers more quickly save and retrieve fixed content ...

GUEST OPINION: Today, information is one of the main engines of business, because the very existence of a company sometimes depends on the ability to store and process it. In this article, we will ...

EMC has introduced a high-end virtual tape library product for large enterprise mainframe environments that is the only mainframe virtual tape library that ensures consistency between tape data at ...

Computerworld QuickStudies In comparison, hard drive storage combined the machine and the medium into a single piece of hardware, gaining speed and simplifying access. But it also drove up storage ...

The IT department at PinnacleHealth in Harrisburg, Pa., operates more than 300 servers, ensuring that applications are continuously available for 5,000 employees. But backing up eight terabytes of ...