To help companies handle data backup and recovery tasks, storage specialist EMC plans to unveil a product that is based on disk drives but acts as a tape device.
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Sun Microsystems is merging its storage and server units into one team, the company's chief executive Jonathan Schwartz has announced.
Ohio State's administrative services department has been criticised for its flawed security practices, which for a number of years had allowed unencrypted backup tapes to be stored overnight in an employees car.
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The data-storage company unwraps a new tape library system dubbed "Mako," with hopes that the product will take a bite out of rival Storage Technology.
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StorageTek unveiled a tape device for mid-size businesses last week, amid signs that tape is preserving a place in data storage.
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Sun Microsystems is building up its intellectual property in three key storage areas in a bid to provide a more integrated offering than its competitors, said a senior company executive.
Storage maker Quantum has unveiled two disk-based backup appliances designed as tape replacements for Australian mid-sized office and datacentre use.
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