My favorite source of numbers for the tape industry used to be the Santa Clara Consulting Group. They’d been tracking the use of tape in the backup and recovery industry since 2008 and had been a ...

Paramus, NJ, Jan. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Catalogic Software a provider of secure data protection solutions for over 25 years, today announced Catalogic DPX 4.14, the latest version of its all-in ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

If you're old enough, tape backup has been around for decades and was slowly fading out of the market as a digital storage medium. Zip drives were disappearing, and external HDDs were meant to replace ...

Disk is the latest and greatest storage technology and gets all the hype, but for data backup, IT manager Peter Boyes prefers "old reliable": tape. For six years, he relied on tape backups to protect ...

As the saying goes, there is nothing new under the sun. Everything people see now has been here before, and the cycle continues. This adage also applies to technology. What people see now as novel ...

Commentary--Identity theft became a real possibility for millions of Americans last year when corporate backup tapes got lost while being moved from data centers to off-site storage facilities. The ...

In early November, an article in The New York Times carried a sobering statistic: Up to half of New Orleans' 115,000 small businesses are expected to fail in the coming months. The article arrives on ...

Everyone agrees that backups should be sent off site, but not everyone agrees on how that should be accomplished. The decision about which method to use will affect your recovery-time objective (RTO), ...

I have a black Sony SDT-9000 internal SCSI DDS3 DAT tape backup drive. It works perfectly, but I don't have any DAT tapes. This is the P9-DAT12-INT SGI version meaning that it has the firmware to play ...