Sony and Fujifilm tape media dispute must never happen again
Comment Sony and Fujifilm this month settled a festering legal dispute that crippled the global supply of LTO-8 tape media.
The terms of the...
Quantum emerges from accounting hell
Quantum has finally filed corrected financial statements along with its latest quarterly results, and is set to focus on the video and image storage market.
Sony and Fujifilm settle LTO-8 tape media patent dispute
Fujifilm and Sony have buried the hatchet over a patent dispute that crippled the global supply of LTO-8 tape media.
The two tape media...
Your occasional cloud and tape storage round-up
Our round up starts with an on-premises tape backup replacement, meanders through storage in the cloud, and returns to tape with a new LTFS indexing scheme that...
Quantum touts cloud-based subscription service
Quantum is adding cloud-based device management and product access via subscription.
Called Distributed Cloud Services, the software runs as a central hub to...
Google readies rapid-thawing, ice-cold archive. How much and when?
Google is prepping a deep cloud archive service to replace tape storage and says users can anticipate fast access. By contrast Amazon quotes up to retrieval time...
AWS debuts cheap and slow Glacier Deep Archive
Amazon Web Services has announced its Glacier Deep Archive is available at about $1/TB/month, the lowest data storage cost in the cloud.
AWS claims...
Model9’s mission to murder mainframe VTLs
"We love mainframe and we want to make it better," says Model9 co-founder and CEO Gil Peleg.
He wants to demonstrate his love by...
How do you sex up a tape library? Fujitsu marketer: “Ransomware!”
Fujitsu has applied a thin coat of ransomware marketing gloss to the most unlikely thing, a new mid-range tape library called the LT140.
Here's...
Quantum booted off NYSE
The New York Stock Exchange has delisted the storage vendor Quantum for failure to file accounts.
The company's self-inflicted accounting mess is to blame. ...