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- Total Recall Online Backup - OBM (exe)
- Total Recall is a unique online service that allows you to back up and immediately restore all files, databases and emails held on your network. No more back up tapes. No more tape drives. Just a secure, fast and automated system that guarantees you 24/7 access to the information vital...
- Tags: tape drive, connect support, total recall, e-mail, storage, storage management, backups, online communications, hardware
- Software downloads 2008-03-12
- Encryption Technology for the HP StorageWorks Ultrium LTO4 Tape Drive White Paper
- This white paper introduces the concept of encryption technology and its application in the HP StorageWorks Ultrium LTO4 Tape Drive. It also describes the basic cryptographic functions which are used in a tape encryption solution. Encryption is derived from the Greek word kryptos, which means hidden. It is the process...
- Tags: tape drive, hewlett-packard co., hp storageworks, encryption, encryption technology
- White papers 2007-12-01
- Thought Equity Delivers Film and Video Content Four Times Faster With Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive
- Thought Equity Management, Inc. is the worldwide leader in motion imagery licensing and management for the entertainment, creative and corporate production industries. The company wanted to provide customers with rapid online access to large film and video files to scale petabyte-level storage environment in cost-effective increments to keep pace with...
- Tags: tape drive, sun microsystems inc., storagetek, equity, video, storage, storage management, hardware
- Case studies 2007-12-01
- IBM Virtualization Engine TS7740 Performance White Paper for Releases 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
- The TS7740 is built upon a unit of scalability called a "cluster". The TS7740 is available with a single cluster, or as two or three clusters linked together via a TCP/IP interface, termed a "Grid". Each cluster supports four FICON host channels, 256 virtual tape drives, and up to sixteen...
- Tags: tape drive, virtualization, ibm corp., ts7740, storage management, storage, performance management, tcp/ip, hardware, human resources, workforce management, networking
- White papers 2007-11-15
- Data Backup and Recovery Options
- One of the most fundamental elements of any disaster recovery plan is data backup and recovery. If an IT staff lacks the ability to recover lost data following an incident or disaster, redundant hardware or hot sites are of only limited value. Relatively few years ago, planning a backup strategy...
- Tags: tape drive, data backup, small and medium business, smb/sme, backups, disaster recovery, storage management, storage, data management, hardware
- White papers 2007-07-06
- IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Encryption With IBM System i
- IBM was first in the industry to offer a tape drive hardware encryption solution. Together with the free of charge IBM Encryption Key Manager component for the Java Platform EKM program that supports the generation and communication of encryption keys for the encryption enabled IBM tape drives IBM offers a...
- Tags: tape drive, encryption, ibm corp., storage management, storage, hardware
- White papers 2007-06-29
- The Truth About Tape - Nine Myths to Reconsider
- It has been more than 55 years since the first commercially available tape drive was marketed to data centers. Tape drives today do not look at all like those first drives. Engineering developments through out the years have brought faster, more reliable, and higher capacity media and drives and the...
- Tags: tape drive, storage, storage management, data centers, roi/tco, hardware, data management, finance, managerial accounting
- White papers 2007-02-21
- Sun StorageTek T10000 Fibre Channel Tape Drive - Raising the Bar of Performance: A Performance Comparison Test by Percept Technology Labs, Inc.
- The need for data storage is becoming more critical than ever. Rigorous compliance regulations recently enacted worldwide, for example, now mean that failure to recover data can do more than just compromise the company's competitive position; it can incur stiff legal penalties, as well. The Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drive...
- Tags: tape drive, performance, sun microsystems inc., storagetek, storage management, storage, performance management, hardware, human resources, workforce management
- White papers 2007-01-01
- HP StorageWorks LTO-4 Ultrium 1840: 4th Generation Tape Drive
- First tape drive capable of storing up to 1.6TB per cartridge while providing hardware-based encryption to enable greater levels of security and unprecedented performance.
- Tags: tape drive, hewlett-packard co., hp storageworks, storage management, storage, hardware
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- HP StorageWorks DAT160 Tape Drive: Business Continuity for Critical Data
- With a long track record of proven reliability, this low-cost backup solution is ideal for small/medium businesses and branch offices, so one can rest assured that data are protected.
- Tags: tape drive, hewlett-packard co., hp storageworks, business continuity, backups, smb/sme
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- IBM debuts encrypting tape drive
- IBM debuts encrypting tape driveKeysSo where are the keys stored?Clearly not on the tape, that would be stupid.So on the tape unit? On the system that does the backing up?So what happens when the datacentre burns down and all you have are the tapes?Key Management for Encrypting tapesSee http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/solutions/data_encryption/index.html...
- Tags: storage management, storage, tape drive, ibm corp., tape
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
- HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Single Server Edition Backup and Recovery Software for HP Tape Drives and Tape Autoloaders White Paper
- No other media provides the long-term, robust and economic data protection of a backup to tape. And, no one provides as many features and tools as standard with its tape drives, tape autoloaders and tape libraries as HP provides its customers. For smaller and medium sized organizations, HP offers a...
- Tags: software, tape drive, hewlett-packard co., recovery, hp storageworks, server, backups, storage management, storage, hardware
- White papers 2006-05-01
- VERITAS NetBackup - Best Practices: Migrating to or Integrating New Tape Drive Technologies in Existing Libraries
- An increasing number of new tape drives are able to read data written on previous generation tape drives and in some cases even write to the media used with those drives, either at the existing density or at a new, higher density. Customers may want to migrate from an older...
- Tags: tape drive, veritas software corp., best practice, veritas netbackup, storage management, storage, hardware
- White papers 2006-01-06
- HP StorageWorks DDS/DAT USB Tape Drive White Paper
- HP StorageWorks DDS/DAT tape drives have traditionally been based on the parallel SCSI pSCSI interface. This interface has always been widely used and popular for its high reliability and performance. However, dramatic changes in the interface market, including numerous new interface introductions, have caused a number of server manufacturers to...
- Tags: tape drive, hewlett-packard co., hp storageworks, scsi
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Branded tape drives in Asia-Pacific excluding Japan to decline by 0.5% a year
- According to IDC, India and China branded tape drive markets are projected to grow despite the declining branded tape drive market in the region. The APEJ market is expected to decrease to $251.7 mln by 2009, which represents a 2004-2009 compound annual growth rate CAGR of -0.5%. India and China,...
- Tags: tape drive
- Blog posts 2005-06-28
- Storage networking fundamentals: Storage devices
- This sample chapter, taken from Cisco Press' Storage Networking Fundamentals: An Introduction to Storage Devices, Subsystems, Applications, Management, and File Systems, explains the inner-workings of both disk drive and tape drive technologies, shows how they are used in a storage area network SAN, and outlines each technology's benefits and shortcomings....
- Tags: tape drive, storage networking, network, storage device, cisco systems inc., storage, storage management, hardware
- Book chapters 2005-04-26
- External USB HDD Backups: Using BackupAssist With External USB Hard Drives
- For users without a tape drive, BackupAssist can perform backups to a backup file (with the .bkf extension). This backup file can be saved to a hard drive, DVD/CD, USB Memory Stick, USB Hard Drive or Network Storage Device, enabling users to perform their backups using BackupAssist when a tape...
- Tags: tape drive, usb, backups
- White papers 2005-04-19
- Not again!
- Here is a breaking news story from the Wall Street Journal this morning. Bank of America Corp. said it lost computer backup tapes containing personal information such as names and Social Security numbers on about 1.2 million federal-government charge cards.At least this story is getting publicized. A well...
- Tags: tape drive, tape
- Blog posts 2005-02-28
- Single tape drives to grow at 1.3% a year in Asia-Pacific
- According to IDC, the market for branded single tape drives is expected to increase to $222 mln by 2008 which represents a 2003-2008 compound annual growth rate CAGR of 1.3%. This low growth reflects the decrease in the entry-level segment of the tape drive storage market and considerable price pressures...
- Tags: tape drive
- Blog posts 2005-01-07
- Single tape drives to grow at 1.3% a year in Asia-Pacific
- According to IDC, the market for branded single tape drives is expected to increase to $222 mln by 2008 which represents a 2003-2008 compound annual growth rate CAGR of 1.3%. This low growth reflects the decrease in the entry-level segment of the tape drive storage market and considerable price pressures...
- Tags: tape drive
- Blog posts 2005-01-07
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