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 makers have agreed a global patent...
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 saves space...
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 which Quantum products connect and send...
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 of up...
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 this is significantly cheaper than storing...
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 killing off mainframe Virtual Tape Libraries...
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 the pitch. Stored tapes are offline...
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. Quantum wrongly recognised up to $60m in revenues...
Ritek’s optical delusion baffles Blocks & Files
Optical disk demand will sky-rocket in 2020 as cloud computing centres come to realise optical disk archives are cheaper and last longer than tape or disk archives. So says...
Seagate says tape to cloud pricing is ‘confidential’
Seagate’s Lyve Data Services will use per-customer, tape-to-cloud project pricing in its data migration centres but commercial details are opaque.
The company last week announced Lyve Data Services (LDS) in conjunction...
Seagate declares war on tape
Seagate wants to take data stored on tape and migrate it to the cloud for faster access. Its Lyve Data Services use Tape Ark software and technology as a...
Self-driving cars! The Quantum of some solace for ailing tape vendor
CEO Jamie Lerner is taking Quantum into vertical markets with a front and central focus on StorNext, its scale out filesystem manager. The first example is a mobile storage...