When virtual tape arrived on the scene a few years ago, many storage managers dismissed it as a niche product not sturdy enough for enterprise-class backups. Now this New Data Center technology, which ...

Q: A few years ago, I read a column where you said 60% of recovery operations from tape failed. Is that still true? — H.B., Atlanta A: No. At least I don’t think so. However, let’s look at the problem ...

Ask most IT teams whether they're protected against a major outage or ransomware attack, and the answer will almost certainly be yes, because the backups are in place and the box marked 'disaster ...

Iron Mountain Inc. is advising its customers that current, commonly used disaster recovery processes do not address increased requirements for protecting personal information from inadvertent ...

Backup tapes have been used for decades in the corporate environment for business continuity or disaster recovery. Individual tapes typically contained a snapshot of the company’s documents and ...

They're the first questions you might be asked in the heat of a disaster, DDoS, or ransomware attack: How soon before we're back up? How good are our backups? Have the wrong answer to those questions, ...

Finding out whether backup and recovery systems work well is more complicated than just knowing how long backups and restores take; agreeing to a core set of essential metrics is the key to properly ...

Most organisations have two or three backup products deployed, while many have tapes up to 20 years old – and they don’t know the contents. Meanwhile, tape storage hardware, maintenance and staff ...

Tape is the Mark Twain of data storage: reports of its death are certainly exaggerated. Tape continues to play a role in the enterprise, and not just because it is a tried and tested technology in ...