Fujifilm
Launches Wireless Backup Tape Tracker
VALHALLA,
N.Y. - March 26, 2008 - Fujifilm today announced the immediate
availability of the Fujifilm Tape Tracker, a wireless tool to help data
managers increase security of data by tracking in real-time the location and
status of sensitive removable media cartridges while in transit.
The Fujifilm Tape Tracker (patents pending) is designed within a 0.5" tape
cartridge format, enabling it to fit snugly and discreetly inside nearly any
tape media case. The Fujifind application uses the information, tracking,
geo-fencing and notification capability of SC-Integrity's
LoJack
InTransit monitoring solution.
“The tremendous feedback we received from customers when we
introduced this concept last year made clear - there is a significant desire to
maintain visibility and control over removable media during shipment from one
location to another,” said Daniel Greenberg at Fujifilm Recording Media. “The
ability of tape to store
large quantities of data in a cost effective, energy efficient, removable format
make it a preferred medium to backup and archive critical business data. The
Tape Tracker gives power back to the data managers to maintain a chain of
custody for these assets as they move between data center backup, vault or
disaster recovery destinations.”
...Fujifilm profile
Hifn Unveils Roadmap for iSCSI VARs
LOS GATOS, Calif -
February 25, 2008 – Hifn today unveiled its partner program aimed
at resellers in the the rapidly growing iSCSI market.
The company
has high confidence in the appeal of its
iSCSI tape encryption
appliances and says that 10% of VARs who saw a recent Hifn webinar
applied to become channel partners immediately afterwards. ...Hifn profile
Editor's
comments: Hifn's VAR programs have road warrior themes with names like
Fast Start, Freeway and Autobahn. Those words are loaded with meaning and could
backfire. Around here you can get a sense of what driving used to be like as you
drive to the airport at 3am on a Sunday morning. At many other times it's
quicker to walk.
Tandberg Data Launches 100 Slot Tape Library
Oslo
Norway - January 14, 2008 - Tandberg Data today introduced the
StorageLibrary T40+ 4U rackmount tape library
The StorageLibrary
T40+ allows users to stack up to 5x T40+ libraries together, offering from 24
to 188 slots, with capacities ranging from 9.6TB to 150TB (native). Avaialble
interfaces include LVD SCSI,
Fibre Channel and
SAS. MSRP starts
at $10,495.
"The 20 to 100 slot LTO
tape library segment is
the growing segment in the tape automation market," says Hamish Macarthur
from Macarthur Stroud International.
...Tandberg Data
profile
Audavi Ships 250GB HardTape
San
Jose, CA - November 26, 2007 - Audavi Corp today announced the
addition of a 250GB capacity cartridge to its HardTape family of portable rugged
storage devices.
The 250GB cartridge, based on 2.5-inch
hard drive technology
has a 50MB/s sustained data transfer rate. Rugged enough to survive a 2-foot
drop onto concrete, the HardTape cartridge is an excellent alternative to
tape for client data
backup and disaster recovery, medical image storage, and security video
recording.
HardTape is significantly faster than "burning"
CD/DVD disks for data
back-up and archive applications. HardTape cartridges can move easily from
system to system using a bay or cable connection through any of the standard
interfaces (USB,
FireWire,
SCSI,
SATA). Featuring a
black anodized aluminum case for additional durability, HardTape cartridges are
pocket-sized and weigh about 8 ounces. ...Audavi profile
Tapewise Enterprise Checks Tape Media Errors
Farnborough
UK - September 18, 2007 - Data Product Services today announces the
release of Tapewise Enterprise.
Tapewise is software that writes
data to a tape and then reads it again, tracking any errors, soft recoverable
ones or unrecoverable ones, that occur. It streams a whole tape through a drive
in this way and, with its Tape Error Map technology, produces a 3D graph
showing errors encountered along the length of a tape when data was being read
and written.
The user can decide what an acceptable error rate is
and that boundary will be shown on the graph with any error rates above the
user-defined norm instantly visible. The software supports a large number of
tape formats: 3480; 3490; DLT; SDLT; 3590; 9840; 9940; T10000; LTOs 1, 2 and 3
and 3592. Costs start at $16,000 approx. A free 14-day evaluation copy is
available. ...Data Product
Services profile,
Tape drives,
Storage Testers
Bus-Tech Announces SAN Support for Mainframe
Data Library
Burlington,
MA - August 13, 2007 - today, Bus-Tech, Inc. announced upcoming support
for clustered SAN support in its Mainframe Data Library; the tape-on-disk
controller for IBM and compatible mainframes.
This enhancement to the
MDL allows
fibre channel attached
disks to be shared
across multiple MDL Emulation Nodes. A
SAN attached MDL now has
all the redundancy and high-availability characteristics previously available
only for IP-attached storage implementations. The MDL provides multiple
independently operating Emulation Nodes to insure the highest availability. Each
Emulation Node provides a minimum of 2 FICON or ESCON channel interfaces and a
fully populated MDL emulates up to 1,024 mainframe
tape drives. The MDL
supports in-line data encryption and IDRC compression.
...Bus-Tech profile,
Disk to disk backup
TDK Launches New Tape Cartridge
GARDEN
CITY, NY - May 7, 2007 - TDK Corp announced that it will launch sales
of its DAT 160 Data Cartridge, in June.
The DC-DAT160 offers
160GB capacity (with data compression) and is the world's first DAT 160 media to
pass compliance testing by the DAT Manufacturers Group. TDK will concurrently
launch sales of its DAT Cleaning Cartridge II. DAT 160 is a 6th generation
data cartridge which is backwards compatible with DDS-4 and DAT 72.
...TDK profile,
Storage Media
Tape Backup Drops Out of Top Storage Searches
Editor:- April 2, 2007 -
STORAGEsearch.com reports the top 5 subjects viewed by storage
searchers in March were:-
(1) -
Disk to disk backup,
(2) - Solid state disks
(3) - Hard drives
(4)
- RAID systems, and
(5) -
NAS
Tape backup
related searches have dropped out of the top 20 subjects viewed.
Pageviews
in the top 10 subjects grew
28% compared to the year before period. For more info on the top
subjects, articles etc see
Market research
Only 15% of Users Think Backup will Never Go
Entirely Tapeless
Santa Barbara, California
- March 8, 2007 - A series of extensive end user surveys conducted by Peripheral
Concepts, Inc. reveal a major shift in the small and medium IT operational
plans for implementing high availability secure businesses.
On
the subject of Backup ,
D2D and
VTL... Faster
data retrieval, reliability and ease of management are the major reasons for
implementing VTL. Half of the respondents estimate their backup window and
restore time need improvement, seeking seconds for Recovery Time Objective for
part of their data. Some experience 3 times less unsuccessful backups with
disks. In spite of a tape
business that holds strong, 55% estimate the timeframe for a tape-less operation
to be less than 4 years, and 15% believe it will never happen.
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Disk to
Disk Backup versus Tape - War or Truce? - article by Engenio
Will
disk to disk backup make tape backup obsolete? That's a question that's been
debated hotly here on STORAGEsearch for many years.
At the extreme
polarized ends of the argument are tape media makers like Sony, who in
an article here made a
case for the long term survival of tape, and at the other end of the argument
are disk to disk supporters like STORAGEsearch whose
editorial view has been
that tape doesn't have a viable role the midsize market any more. In the
middle of this argument are the moderates who say that maybe tape and D2d can
co-exist. This article by Steve Gardner at Engenio takes the middle course line
- and says why he thinks there's still a place for both. See if you agree. ...read the article,
...Engenio profile,
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Bare Media
Exposed - Looking at the Contenders for Optical Media Archiving - article by
Plasmon
Optical archiving has become a legally mandated
storage technology in many markets. There are a lot of new optical media
technologies and packaging formats to choose from. But which ones will stand the
test of time in terms of data reliability and cost of ownership? Plasmon,
founded in 1987, has nearly 2 decades of experience as a systems and media
supplier in the optical archiving industry. This article by Steve Tongish,
Plasmon's Director of Marketing EMEA, looks at the critical factors for the
new products now available and those emerging so you can assess which will work
best for you. ...
read the article,
...Plasmon profile,
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