Oct 11, 2023 · Tape backup—writing data to magnetic tape—is an older medium that has been around for decades. Data storage innovations from disk to flash to the cloud offering faster speeds, higher capacities, and more scalable solutions led many in the industry to declare tape obsolete as far back as the early 2000s.

Feb 24, 2010 · More specifically, disk-based deduplication provides Hay House the data protection and redundancy it needs, as well as immediate availability. Backup processes have been streamlined, with deduplication reducing volumes by 92 percent. Weekly tape usage has decreased by 50 to 75 percent and restore times have been reduced from hours or days to ...

Dec 6, 2021 · Tape backup: Many still use tape as a direct data backup medium. Nightly, weekly, or incremental backups are made onto tapes stored onsite and offsite. Tape enables hyperscale: The big cloud providers rely on tape for high-volume, low-cost storage. They each have multiple PBs of data on tape, as do a great many large financial institutions.

Sep 29, 2013 · As well as in backup, disaster recovery (DR) and compliance, tape is experiencing a boom in areas such as active file archiving, low-cost NAS storage and as an archive for cloud providers. The worldwide enterprise tape automation market (i.e. libraries with enterprise tape drives) posted nearly 30% year-over-year revenue growth in 2012.

Mar 6, 2019 · Tape has experienced a resurgence as strategic and low-cost storage for massive unstructured data. And while backup remains an active use case for tape due to its value for fast site restores and anti-ransomware, tape’s future growth opportunities lie …

Dec 12, 2012 · In this buying guide, we cover a massive tape archiving system from Spectra Logic, new LTO-6 tape drives by Tandberg Data, and tape integrity and management tools from Oracle, as well as Oracle’s newest mainframe tape product. Tape Archive. The T-Finity automated tape library from Spectra Logic is huge. It is a dual robot (active/active ...

Oct 8, 2021 · Also Read: 7 Reasons Why Data Backup Is Here to Stay. However, tape also has disadvantages. It’s slow, although the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) for LTO technology does speed data searches within a tape storage system. It’s also fragile, and it has to be assiduously cared for by data center or remote storage administrators.

Dec 6, 2021 · What this adds up to is the need for fewer tape drives for the data recall workflows. If more backup software vendors adopt this technology, it could seriously reduce the time needed for a restore. “Our recall workflows will increase markedly from 2022, and this oRAO feature on LTO-9 comes right on time,” Bahyl said.

Mar 16, 2015 · “Stop thinking about tape just as a backup solution, and instead think differently about storage of unstructured file content,” said Eric Bassier, Senior Director, Product Management, Quantum. “With new tape innovations like Linear Tape File System (LTFS), storing files on tape is easier than ever, and can be as easy as drag and drop ...

Sep 22, 2023 · An air-gapped copy of data on tape provides heightened security and protection against ransomware. There are disadvantages, too—here are the most common: 3-2-1 incurs cost—it requires more disk and solid state drive (SSD) space, tape systems, and additional cloud resources, as well as IT staff time.