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ALSO CALLED: Magnetic Tape Drives, 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 work either by using a traditional helical scan where the recording and playback heads touch the tape, or linear tape technology, where … Definition continues below.
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BMS Telecorp expands contact center services sponsored by Dell and VMware WHITE PAPER: This white paper presents a key case study of an organization that created a robust, flexible and scalable IT infrastructure to increase data center capacity five-fold and better support growing needs. Posted: 06 Jun 2013 \| Published: 06 Oct 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Consolidation \| Data Center Design \| Data Center Infrastructure Efficiency \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Server Hardware \| Server Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

LTFS Hits the Mark in Media & Entertainment: An In-Depth Introduction to LTFS for Digital Media sponsored by The LTO Program WHITE PAPER: Check out this comprehensive report to learn about the role of LTFS in digital media in 2013. Posted: 11 Mar 2013 \| Published: 07 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Content Archiving \| Content Delivery \| Content Management \| Disk Backups \| Disk Storage Systems \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Media \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

GET THE FACTS: LTO Tape Reliability Saves sponsored by The LTO Program WHITE PAPER: Access this one-page data sheet to get the facts on the savings you could realize with LTO tape. Posted: 07 Mar 2013 \| Published: 07 Mar 2013 TOPICS: Backups \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk Storage Systems \| Storage Media \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives

Oracle StorageTek Tape Storage—A ClearWinner Over IBM sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: This white paper compares Oracle's enterprise tape offerings to the latest IBM enterprise tape offerings and describes how Oracle's industry-leading capacity, performance and flexibility can help IT organizations manage complexity, control costs, and deliver on service level agreements. Posted: 17 Dec 2012 \| Published: 31 Dec 2012 TOPICS: Oracle (Product) \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Optimization \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drive Controllers \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads \| Tape Libraries \| TCO

LTO 6 vs LTO 5 Comparative Performance White Paper sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This white paper describes the performance of the IBM System Storage LTO Ultrium 6 tape drive (LTO-6 tape drive) working on open systems environments. Read now to learn more. Posted: 03 Dec 2012 \| Published: 28 Sep 2012 TOPICS: Tape Backups \| Tape Drive Controllers \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads \| Tape Libraries

Backup Partner Criteria for Smart Partnerships sponsored by Iron Mountain WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper to discover how an offsite storage partner can be the answer to your content security and storage challenges. Learn about the advantages associated with offsite storage, discover how to define your needs and find the best potential backup partner you can, receive 4 key questions to ask regarding storage partners and more. Posted: 01 Mar 2012 \| Published: 01 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Remote Backups \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Storage Service Providers \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

Risk Management: How Vulnerable is Your Backup Media? sponsored by Iron Mountain WHITE PAPER: Check out this white paper for tips to help you securely manage backup and recovery processes. Discover the importance of developing a chain of custody when it comes to data, learn how authorization and access restrictions can help keep your information secure, and receive best practices for choosing an offsite data backup/protection partner. Posted: 01 Mar 2012 \| Published: 01 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Migration \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Remote Backups \| Storage Security \| Storage Service Providers \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries \| Transportation Management

Overcome 5 Common Backup Challenges With Tape sponsored by Iron Mountain WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn where tape stands today among other storage media, and discover where tape may fit into your backup infrastructure. Posted: 29 Feb 2012 \| Published: 29 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Content Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives

Secure Tape Vaulting Strategies for Serious Data Protection sponsored by Iron Mountain WHITE PAPER: Your tapes deserve the best protection possible. Ensure they get it by reading this white paper filled with best practices for keeping data safe and secure. Discover the benefits associated with data housed onsite vs. offsite, learn 3 key questions to ask regarding your existing backup strategy, discover four keys to tape success and more. Posted: 28 Feb 2012 \| Published: 28 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Content Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives

Best Practices: A Checklist for Backup Tapes sponsored by Iron Mountain WHITE PAPER: Check out these best practices to get the most out of your tape backups. Discover keys to help you define your needs and ensure future success by establishing regular testing of recovery procedures. Also included is a breakdown of tape's lifecycle to help you better understand the backup process, and tips for proper tape handling and transport. Posted: 24 Feb 2012 \| Published: 24 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads \| Tape Libraries

Examining IBM Innovation at Both Ends of the Storage Spectrum- Part 1: Tape sponsored by The 451 Group WHITE PAPER: Find proof that tape isn't dead by checking out this research conducted by The 451 Group, a leading global analyst and data company. This October, 2012 white paper contains the findings of The 451 Group's recent visit to IBM's research facility in Zurich and presents 451 Research's opinion of IBM's innovations and activities in the tape space. Posted: 02 Nov 2012 \| Published: 08 Oct 2012 TOPICS: Data Storage \| Disk Backups \| Disk Storage Systems \| Storage Media \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

LTO-6 Tape Drive Pre-Purchase Program sponsored by Spectra Logic Corporation WHITE PAPER: Check out this brief white paper to learn how you can gain access to the first available shipments of tape's upcoming LTO-6 release. Posted: 09 Apr 2012 \| Published: 09 Apr 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Content Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

The Data Archive Challenge: What’s Your Game Plan? sponsored by Horison Information Strategies WHITE PAPER: Learn how you can overcome the challenges associated with effectively archiving information in today's data-intensive IT environments. Learn about different types of archiving strategies, discover an emerging method known as hierarchical storage management (HSM), receive a step-by-step guide for building a long-term, scalable data archive and more. Posted: 15 Mar 2012 \| Published: 15 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Content Management \| Data Management \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Disk Drives \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Tape Drives

Clipper NotesTM: In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution – Tape Delivers Significant TCO Advantage over Disk sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term archiving of big files in a tiered storage architecture. Posted: 11 Mar 2012 \| Published: 07 Jun 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Email Archiving \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

LTFS Takes Tape to the Next Level sponsored by Horison Information Strategies WHITE PAPER: This white paper provides an introduction to LTFS (Linear Tape File System) - you'll learn exactly how it works, and what unique advantages it has over traditional tape systems. You'll also receive key tips on how to maximize the benefits of LTFS, and learn what factors today are defining the future of tape. Read this white paper to learn more. Posted: 16 Nov 2011 \| Published: 16 Nov 2011 TOPICS: Backups \| Storage Efficiency \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create Greener Datacenter sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: As data volumes grow and budgets shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. StorageTek tape drive and tape library solutions from Oracle provide the answer, helping companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and so much more. Posted: 25 Apr 2011 \| Published: 25 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

Spectra Libraries with BlueScale Encryption sponsored by Spectra Logic Corporation WHITE PAPER: Spectra Logic offers the only truly integrated encryption option for data backed up to tape and other removable media: BlueScale Encryption. Continue reading to learn how encryption and key management is easy to implement with Spectra T-Series libraries. Posted: 02 Mar 2011 \| Published: 02 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Data Encryption \| Data Encryption Standard \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Security \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

Manage Data Growth Even Better with Spectra T-Series and LTO-5 sponsored by Spectra Logic Corporation WHITE PAPER: Regardless of size, most organizations face the same data management challenge—efficiently and cost-effectively protecting and managing ever-growing data. Spectra T-Series with LTO-5 offers exclusive data management and efficiencies for small businesses through to the largest Enterprises. Posted: 02 Mar 2011 \| Published: 02 Mar 2011 TOPICS: Data Management \| Green Data Center \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Consolidation \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

SGI® InfiniteStorage Data Migration Facility (DMF): Virtualizing Storage to Enable Active Archiving sponsored by SGI WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the benefits of Data Migration Facility (DMF) for streamlining data management for the most data-intensive environments. Usage scenarios are discussed along with the core technologies that have made DMF so successful. Posted: 20 Dec 2010 \| Published: 20 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Data Management \| Data Migration \| Disk Backups \| MAID \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Virtualization \| Tape Drives \| TCO \| Tiered Storage

Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter sponsored by Oracle Corporation UK Ltd WHITE PAPER: As data volumes grow and budgets shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. StorageTek tape drive and tape library solutions from Oracle provide the answer, helping companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and so much more. Posted: 05 Oct 2010 \| Published: 21 Apr 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

Oracle's StorageTek LT0-5 Tape Drive: Industry Leading Scalability sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This paper will discuss the advantages and industry-leading capacity of the StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive and how implementing StorageTek LTO-5 into StorageTek tape libraries will result in a significant boost in capacity that will help customers stay on top of their data growth needs. Posted: 01 Oct 2010 \| Published: 01 Jul 2010 TOPICS: Scalability Testing \| Storage Architectures \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Media \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries \| Tiered Storage

Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: As data volumes grow and budgets shrink, datacenter managers are looking for ways to scale storage infrastructure and reduce operating costs. StorageTek tape drive and tape library solutions from Oracle provide the answer, helping companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and so much more. Posted: 01 Oct 2010 \| Published: 01 Apr 2010 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Storage Infrastructure \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

How to optimize your backup tape rotation strategy sponsored by Quantum Corporation WHITE PAPER: In a GFS scheme the daily backup tapes should probably be replaced each year or so and the weekly and monthly tapes (assuming the monthly tapes aren't archived) accordingly. Read this tutorial to find out so much more. Posted: 17 Sep 2010 \| Published: 17 Sep 2010 TOPICS: Backup Server Hardware \| Backup Software \| Backups \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drive Controllers \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads \| Tape Libraries

Backup sponsored by Panasas, Inc. WHITE PAPER: The explosion of unstructured data and the advent of scale out NAS systems has caused backup of these systems to be an ever growing concern. This white paper describes the overall strategy for backup and restore taking into account the tape subsystem, networking, file system workload and administrative policy. Posted: 12 Aug 2010 \| Published: 12 Aug 2010 TOPICS: Backups \| Fibre Channel Switches \| NAS \| Networking \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries \| Workload Automation

7 Key Steps for Overcoming the Limitations of Tape Backup sponsored by ExaGrid Systems, Inc. WHITE PAPER: This document is a 7-step guide for making the move from tape to disk backup with deduplication. Within these steps, the Guide provides a concise summary of the downsides of tape backup, and then examines the superiority and economy of second-generation disk backup with data deduplication. Posted: 09 Jul 2010 \| Published: 09 Jul 2010 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drive Controllers \| Disk Drives \| Disk Mirroring \| Disk Storage Systems \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drive Controllers \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads \| Tape Libraries

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TAPE DRIVES DEFINITION (continued): … 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). Non-rewinding devices are useful for incremental backups and other applications where new files are added to the end of the previous session's files. A benefit of a tape drive backup is that tapes have a large capacity for storing data and are very economical when compared …
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