Archive for the ‘Physical Tape’ Category

Tale of the Tape: Musings on IBM’s 35TB Tape Announcement

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

A recent tweet by Chris Mellor from The Register caught my eye. He highlighted IBM’s recent development of a 35TB tape. Here are four articles on the topic: Engadget FUJIFILM Announcement The Register Article A blog post by Robin Harris at ZDnet My thoughts It is interesting to see IBM/Fuji driving tape development. With this ...

Musings on the Spectra Logic T-Finity Announcement

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Last week Spectra Logic unveiled the T-Finity, a new high-end tape library that is one of the largest and most scalable units in the industry.  The system can grow to 30,000 tape slots and 480 drives and it creates some interesting questions. As data backup and recovery SLAs have become more stringent, ...