IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

IBM Introduces the Industry's Fastest One Terabyte Storage Tape Drive New IBM System Storage TS1130 Tape Drive Delivers New Capacity and Performance for Clients ARMONK,NY - IBM today introduced the ...

Magnetic tape drives have been around for more than six decades now. It’s commercial use has been mostly for storing data, such as tax documents and health care records, from mainframe computers. From ...

Big Blue on Tuesday plans to unveil its IBM System Storage TS1120, designed to store and encrypt data on tape drives. IBM's TS1120 aims to allow users to encrypt data at a tape level, whether they are ...

In today's computing world, there are just a few things that come to mind when you mention "storage." Flash drives, hard drives, solid state drives and maybe even cloud storage. But that's about the ...

ALMADEN, CALIFORNIA — IBM has begun work on new technologies designed to boost the capacity of tape storage devices by 250 times. Using “nanopatterning” techniques derived from the company’s ...

IBM last week bolstered its tape storage portfolio with new media, encryption and data retention capabilities, as well as a new virtual tape library that makes backing up data a more efficient affair.

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 ...

IBM has built a tape cartridge capable of storing the data capacity equivalent of 750,000 floppy disks, a tenfold increase on the capacity of today’s tape devices, the company said yesterday. The 1TB ...

I got my hands on a known-good IBM tape drive that comes from a PowerVault 132T. The tape drive itself (sorry, I'm at the office and don't have the P/N) only has a single SCSI connector at the back of ...

For many people, tape memory is a dead technology found only on reel-to-reel computers in old 1960s movies. However, it’s still a major storage medium and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji ...