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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
This has cost $33m and...
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 settlement are secret and neither side...
Now that’s what I call future proofing. IBM makes world’s first quantum computing-safe tape...
IBM is developing cryptographic security measures to protect archived data against attacks by quantum computers.
You can't be too careful, IBM says: “While years away, data can be harvested...
Dell earnings show it pulling away from the competition
Dell Technologies pulled in £23.4bn revenues in the second fiscal 2020 quarter, up 2 per cent, and eked a massive $4.5bn profit, thanks to an income tax provision.
In a...
Spectra Logic’s StorCycle HSM shunts old data to lower cost storage
Spectra Logic, the tape systems vendor, is entering the storage management market, claiming it solves the problem that most data is stored on the wrong media i.e. expensive and fast...
Mind the air gap: Quantum reinforces tape defences against ransomware
Quantum has added a software lock mechanism to prevent backup tapes being accessed in its Scalar i3, i6 and i6000 libraries as a further barrier against ransomware.
Tape cartridges stored...
Quantum squeezes out first profit in 18 quarters
As well as becoming a listed company again, Quantum has made its first profit in 18 quarters; that’s four-and-a-half years.
Revenues in its third fiscal 2020 quarter were $103.3m, up...