Tape is definitely not the best choice for primary recovery, but it does have features that make it a credible option for restoring systems and data that have fallen victim to ransomware without ...

The debate over whether disk or tape is the better solution for backup has been going on for some time now, and it seems the answer you get typically depends on who is responding to the question.

What happens instead is that customers using tape backup worry about their systems. Switching to a different backup mechanism can be costly, both in dollars and in time. Disk-based backup vendor ...

According to an EaseUS chat rep. with whom I just spoke, EaseUS TODO Backup (any version) cannot restore files and/or folders directly from tape. This person said that if you want to recover ...

Greetings card and gift products maker IG Design Group has ditched tape as primary backup and moved to Nakivo, slashing backup window and restore times. The company is part of a multinational ...

It’s no secret: IT pros absolutely love to hate tape. I’ve remarked on that fact in this column several times over the past few years, and it’s no less true now than it was any of the other times I’ve ...

With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape. The amount of data we ...

Computerworld QuickStudies In comparison, hard drive storage combined the machine and the medium into a single piece of hardware, gaining speed and simplifying access. But it also drove up storage ...