ALSO CALLED: Magnetic Tape Drives and Drives DEFINITION: A tape drive is a device that stores computer data on magnetic tape, especially for backup and archiving purposes. Like an ordinary tape recorder, a tape drive records data on a loop of flexible celluloid-like material that can be read and also erased. Tape drives
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Bourdon and her team evaluated the merits of EVault Protect online backup and recovery services against that of a few other online backup providers.
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This paper explains the process of selecting the right mix of disk and tape components to meet the backup capacity, performance, reliability, and security requirements of your environment.
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It seems like every article about encryption starts by rehashing high-profile screw-ups where a tape containing a million credit card numbers bounced off a delivery truck or disappeared off the loading dock.
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JOURNAL ARTICLE: Posted: 13 Nov 2006 | Published: 01 Nov 2006
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Companies need to take a more strategic approach to tape encryption by building a services-based architecture that can meet today's needs and scale to accommodate future needs.
TAPE DRIVES DEFINITION (continued): … work either by using a traditional helical scan where the recording and playback heads touch the tape, or linear tape technology, where the heads never actually touch the tape. Drives can be rewinding, where the device issues a rewind command at the end of a session, or non-rewinding. Rewinding devices are most commonly used when a tape is to be unmounted at the end of a session after batch processing of large amounts of data (payroll is the classic example). … Tape Drives definition sponsored by SearchStorage.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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