German Climate Computing Centre cans StorageTek in favour of LTO tape
The German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ) is replacing its HPSS hierarchical file management system and migrating from Oracle StorageTek to LTO tape.
DKRZ provides high performance computing, storage and...
Spectra Logic: Our 1EB tape library is massively cheaper than AWS Glacier
Spectra Logic’s TFinity tape library can store an exabyte of uncompressed data with LTO-9 tapes, and is much cheaper than AWS Glacier Deep Archive, the company claims
Spectra Logic estimates...
LTO org changes tape roadmap strategy, cuts LTO-9 capacity to build air-gapped ransomware defence...
The Linear Tape Open (LTO) organisation has cut the capacity of its next LTO-9 generation from 24TB raw to 18TB, saying it is balancing capacity and cost for the...
IBM adds cloud tiering to boosted memory mainframe storage array
IBM has improved performance and functionality for the mainframe focused storage array and virtual tape library (VTL) products.
The DS8900F flash array gets a 70 per cent increase in...
LTO tape shipments hit capacity record in 2019
A record 114,079 petabytes of total LTO tape capacity (compressed) shipped during 2019, according to the latest report from The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), while unit shipments...
Fujifilm points to 400TB tape cartridge on the horizon
Fujifilm reckons it can build a 400TB tape cartridge using Strontium Ferrite (SrFe) media. This is 33 times larger than the current LTO-8 cartridge and takes us out four...
Listen up, Fujifilm. PoINT Systemes already pumps objects to tape storage
Our recent article about Fujifilm’s Object Archive software, which will support object data on its magnetic tape, prompted PoiNT Systemes to get in touch.
The German firm's S3-enabled Archival Gateway...
Fujifilm creates software framework for object storage on tape
Update: Scality Zenko is the S3 server inside Fujifilm's Object Archive. 24 June 2020.Update: Cloudian and the Object Archive added. 9 June 2020.
Fujifilm is paving the way for tape...
Will NVMe become the universal block storage access protocol?
Facebook’s virtual OCP summit earlier this month hosted two provocative presentations that suggested NVMe could become a universal block access protocol. How realistic is this prospect?
The 2020 OCP Virtual...
Critical thinking: NetApp builds Scale-out Data Protection with Commvault
NetApp has launched a backup / disaster recovery system based on Commvault software that runs NetApp HCI and stores backup data on its all-flash FAS arrays and StorageGRID object...
Fujitsu Labs quadruples LTFS tape storage read speed
Fujitsu Labs has accelerated LTFS tape read and write speeds by devising a multiple cartridge file system with faster directory access and by improving speeding file IO on cartridges.
LTFS,...
Veeam Availability Suite hits the tenth grade
Veeam’s tenth major release of its software adds single-click recovery of multiple VMs at a time, anti-ransomware backups with AWS’s S3 Object Lock, a data integration API for third-party...