I can’t remember the first time a database or storage vendor told me, “Disk is cheap,” but it was probably in the 1990s. Vendors like to say disk is cheap because it helps them sell more of it and to ...

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 ...

Research Archive Storage provides the CWRU research community an option to store data that has long term value, though is only infrequently accessed. Built on a high density storage platform, the ...

Earlier this month, Microsoft dropped prices by up to 50 percent for its Archive Storage offerings, aiming to provide the most cost-effective storage access. Then, last week, a new data redundancy ...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif.—XenData has unveiled the E-Series Object Storage Archive Appliance, an on-premise archive platform offering support for between 280 TB and 1.12 PB of storage that can be accessed ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. During recent prior year projections for digital storage and memory we have not talked much about digital storage using optical ...

In October, Germany-based PoINT will launch an object storage archiving product based on disk and tape media. “Our idea is to offer on-site exactly the same thing as AWS [Amazon Web Services] offers ...