When it comes to archiving data, there are three different approaches, generally speaking. Selecting the right system hinges on technical capabilities as well as external factors such as budget ...

Recent announcements in magnetic tape and optical disc technology promise hefty storage media for future data archive applications. The LTO program announced its generation 14 with 576TB of native ...

As data creation and retention rates continue to increase, the time frame for active data use has shrunk, with most files accessed less frequently and for shorter periods before becoming dormant. This ...

These 10 data storage startups are tackling disaster recovery and archiving, data protection, and high-speed and secure file sharing -- and even cutting the cost and upping the performance of ...

When IT managers consider logging and archiving, they are faced with a dilemma: Keep enough data, and audit and regulatory needs are met, business continuity is maintained, and recovery after disaster ...

Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud, on disk drives, and optical disks, but each has some drawbacks. Long-term storage—archiving—requires a very different approach than backup and recovery ...

Hitachi Data Systems is set to announce Tuesday its acquisition of Archivas, a developer of software for archiving and searching of data for compliance applications. Archivas' Archive Cluster (ArC) ...

Versity’s archiving products only start at dozens of petabytes of minimum storage volumes, while its installed storage volume has reached several exabytes with no sign of slowing down. “We actually ...

Add another "certainty in life" to the conventional death and taxes: the continued growth of structured and unstructured data in clouds, data centers, and personal devices. With the streams of files ...

AI data centers have created a storage shortage forcing Internet Archive to seek donations while high-capacity drives face ...