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 ...

Streaming LTO-5

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Chris Mellor (twitter:@Chris_Mellor) recently posted an article over at The Register about LTO-5 entitled Is LTO-5 the last harrah for tape?.  He makes an interesting point about the future of LTO and whether LTO-5 will be the last generation of the technology.  Most of the comments on the article disagree ...

The Fallacy of Faster Tape

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I often talk about disk-based backup and virtual tape libraries (VTL) and wanted to discuss physical tape. While VTLs are popular these days, tape is still in widespread use. LTO tape, the market share leader, continues to highlight increased density and performance. Do not be fooled with ...