On Monday, StorageTek will launch its BladeStore Disk System, which makes use of ATA disk drives from Maxtor to provide 800 Gbytes of backup storage, said Thomas Major, vice president and general ...

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 ...

REO 1000 is a 1U, 1-Tbyte, iSCSI, disk-to-disk (D2D) box designed to accelerate backup and restore tasks. The system is designed for small to midsize businesses and is positioned as an alternative to ...

Mention Shakespeare and everyone spouts “To be or not to be.” Mention backup, and the question becomes, “To tape or not to tape?” Is tape dead, or do tape-based backup systems still have a place in ...

I'm asking this on behalf of my father:<BR><BR>I am responsible for a medium sized office with 50 users running Windows and mainframe apps. We have a dual processor Dell PowerEdge 4400 running NT 4.0 ...

Despite its relatively slow speed and overall bulkiness, tape has its strengths. After all, it’s inexpensive compared with most disks, it’s portable and has been used in data centers for years. Still, ...

With the current price of hard drives I'm being asked the same question more and more. What is the difference between backing up to tape vs. backing up to a hard drive. You can rotate both daily and ...