Adding additional headroom to its DLT tape storage products, Quantum/ATL on Monday announced the availability of Super DLT (digital linear tape) drives, according to officials for Quantum/ATL, a ...

A new tape model from Quantum comes out about every two years, and it arrived as expected early this year in the form of the DLT-S4. The first and most apparent novelty is its name: Quantum dropped ...

Listen to the Computerworld TechCast: Tape Types. For almost as long as computers have existed, magnetic tape has been the backup medium of choice. Tape is inexpensive, well understood and easy to ...

The two makers of tape-backup products have agreed to settle, ending a rancorous spat that has raised antitrust accusations and hobbled a newer tape standard. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Legal challenges are inflaming the otherwise staid tape backup industry, with the two storage companies filing lawsuits against each other. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Recognizing that tape-based archiving continues to be a critical component of many broadcasters’ facilities, technology companies involved with the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program — such as HP, IBM and ...

Quantum and Imation, two makers of tape-backup products, have agreed to settle their lawsuits, ending a rancorous spat that had raised antitrust accusations and hobbled a newer tape standard. The two ...

THE CONSTANT GROWTH of business-supporting data will inevitably compel many midsize companies and departments of larger corporations to consider switching from DLT (digital linear tape) or LTO (linear ...

Disk is the latest and greatest storage technology and gets all the hype, but for data backup, IT manager Peter Boyes prefers "old reliable": tape. For six years, he relied on tape backups to protect ...

Last month we looked at a few methods for backing up data. This month we will discuss what types of data backup systems are currently available. While it is possible to backup data directly to ...

The agreement stipulates that Quantum will certify Imation's digital linear tape (DLT) products and also allow Imation to enter into the Super DLT market. Quantum will also give Imation a cash payment ...

Legal challenges are inflaming the otherwise staid tape backup industry, with Quantum filing a countersuit Wednesday accusing Imation of misappropriating trade secrets. In the lawsuit, filed in ...