LTO is the largest volume magnetic tape. Magnetic tape is mostly used in cold storage archive and backup applications because of the latency in bringing tapes to tape drives in order to read them.

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Quantum has long been involved in cold storage (object storage, tape and backup appliances), its high speed file system (StorNext) and intelligent NAS. With recent acquisition of CatDV media asset ...

The limitations of tape storage go way beyond its lack of scalability. Data that isn’t searchable is becoming a tangible liability for businesses, and one that will only become larger with advances in ...

VALHALLA, N.Y. and AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 17, 2020 — FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. and Caringo, Inc. announced today a joint marketing partnership to offer a complete, on-premises data management ...

Quantum Corporation (Nasdaq: QMCO) today announced new enhancements to the ActiveScale® object storage platform that dramatically accelerate access to cold data stored in Glacier-class archive tiers.

BOULDER, Colo. Feb. 8, 2024 — Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, announced it has validated its On-Prem Glacier solutions for deployment in NetApp ...

Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a century but systems administrators will be stuck with it for some time yet, according to one of Sun Microsystems' top storage ...

IBM and Fujifilm have figured out how to fit 220TB of data on a standard-size tape that fits in your hand, flexing the technology’s strengths as a long-term storage medium. The prototype Fujifilm tape ...