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December 03, 2021 03 Dec'21
AWS Snowball Edge adds offline tape migration capabilities

With AWS Snowball Edge, users can now migrate tape libraries to the cloud, even doing so offline to save on bandwidth.
October 05, 2021 05 Oct'21
Quantum unveils ActiveScale on-prem archiving service

Quantum's new product combines ActiveScale object storage and Quantum tape to deploy a petabyte-scale cold storage environment within customers' on-prem data centers.
September 20, 2021 20 Sep'21
LTO tape capacity shipments dip, but expected to rise

The return of businesses to the office plus tape's protection against cyber attacks should help increase LTO shipments. In addition, LTO-9 recently launched with higher capacity.
September 10, 2021 10 Sep'21
IBM leads parade of vendors delivering LTO-9 tape drives

While sales of tape drives faltered in 2020, IBM and a handful of storage vendors hope to fuel a comeback with delivery of new offerings that ascribe to the LTO-9 specifications.

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backup

Backup refers to the copying of physical or virtual files or databases to a secondary location for preservation in case of equipment failure or catastrophe. Continue Reading
tape backup

Tape backup is the practice of periodically copying data from a primary storage device to a tape cartridge so the data can be recovered if there is a hard disk crash or failure. Continue Reading
cold backup (offline backup)

A cold backup, also called an offline backup, is a database backup during which the database is offline and not accessible to update. Continue Reading

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Why tape-based backup is making a comeback

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Get to know the Microsoft Teams retention policies

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