I can’t remember the first time a database or storage vendor told me, “Disk is cheap,” but it was probably in the 1990s. Vendors like to say disk is cheap because it helps them sell more of it and to ...

Tape is the Mark Twain of data storage: reports of its death are certainly exaggerated. Tape continues to play a role in the enterprise, and not just because it is a tried and tested technology in ...

Earlier this month, Microsoft dropped prices by up to 50 percent for its Archive Storage offerings, aiming to provide the most cost-effective storage access. Then, last week, a new data redundancy ...

Archiving is where old data and content lives out the rest of its life. This used to be a term for pretty cold, infrequently accessed storage. But with the size of archived content increasing and with ...

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When it comes to archiving data, there are three different approaches, generally speaking. Selecting the right system hinges on technical capabilities as well as external factors such as budget ...

In October, Germany-based PoINT will launch an object storage archiving product based on disk and tape media. “Our idea is to offer on-site exactly the same thing as AWS [Amazon Web Services] offers ...