Tape is low cost and a low carbon storage winner
Consultant Brad Johns thinks moving archive data from disk to a 60:40 tape:disk situation could cut its ten-year CO2 emissions by almost 60 percent and its total cost of...
Zettabyte era brings archiving front and center
Veteran storage analyst Fred Moore told a Fujifilm event audience that we're entering a zettabyte era of data storage and archival storage will be the dominant technology by capacity.
The...
Spectra Logic: A niche storage empire
Over 43 years Spectra Logic has built a niche tape, archive, nearline, object, on-premises, and multi-cloud data management empire.
Quantum is the only other standalone tape library and adjacent systems...
Quantum: LTO tape roadmap falls short
Quantum CEO and president Jamie Lerner has suggested that the Linear Tape Open (LTO) consortium was not ambitious enough for tape and its standards were insufficient for hyperscalers.
The Scalar...
Quantum’s slow growth needs rights issue to shore up balance sheet and pay off...
Quantum's final fiscal 2022 quarter and full year results, hit by supply chain issues, saw its cash balance drop necessitating a rights issue to strengthen the balance sheet and...
Folio Photonics joins Active Archive Alliance
Archive optical disk developer Folio Photonics has joined the Active Archive Alliance, bringing it a step closer to delivering product into an archive ecosystem.
The Folio Photonics DataFilm Disk (DFD) has...
Quantum positions ActiveScale as HPC secondary storage
Interview: Quantum, known best for its flash, disk and tape storage, also sells into the data-intensive world of HPC storage. We spoke to Quantum's Eric Bassier, senior director, Product...
Will tape play a ‘critical role’ in the zettabyte era as its supporters hope?
The Tape Storage Council has put out a report saying tape will play an even broader role in the IT ecosystem as data storage growth continues.
We beg to differ.
The...
Rockport flat network boosts UK supercomputer
Rockport Network’s flat, switchless network is interconnecting compute nodes and storage systems in ExCALIBUR, the UK’s DiRAC exascale supercomputer test environment.
Rockport believes that hierarchical leaf-spine, switched networks are inherently...
Storage news ticker – April 20
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An updated all-flash array history chart includes newer entrants like VAST Data and StoreOne, older ones like Fusion-io, Violin and Vexata, and more acquisitions. Enjoy this snapshot and tell...
Archive
Archive – A storage repository for little-accessed data that needs to be retained for a long time. The key difference from a backup is that a backup is a copy of...
Coercivity
Coercivity - the amount of resistance in a ferromagnetic medium to having its magnetic direction (north or south pole) lost by exposure to an input magnetic field. A disk...