Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Starting in the 1980s, internal and external tape drives were occasionally used with personal computers. By the late 1990s, ...

Most organisations have two or three backup products deployed, while many have tapes up to 20 years old – and they don’t know the contents. Meanwhile, tape storage hardware, maintenance and staff ...

Dell Computer has released a new tape-backup system, the PowerVault 122T, a 3.5-inch thick automated tape library that can use up to eight cartridges for a maximum capacity of 320GB of uncompressed ...

Suppose for a moment that a virus has infected your entire computer network. It has quickly spread through every employee’s workstation, into every document and database file. All your work, all your ...

Contrary to popular belief, tape is far from dead, said Scott Winslow, president of Winslow Technology Group, a solution provider in Boston. However, the role tape plays is changing as more customers ...

I am looking for a reliable backup system for a small business that backs up only about 1GB of information a day. I was thing data/tape drive might be the best solution but I am getting some push back ...

This industry likes to abandon technologies as soon as it adopts them, but a few find a way to hang around. I recently purchased a car, and in the finance office was a dot matrix printer, chugging ...

The Iomega USB Mini drive holds up to 128MB of data in a device about the size of a pack of matches and is a great way to back up presentations and other data that need to be kept portable. Backing up ...