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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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BackupCare "Lights-Out" Backup Assistance sponsored by Iron Mountain DATA SHEET: As IT becomes increasingly global, managing remote offices and data centers is becoming a sizable challenge for administrators and organizations with already dwindling budgets. There is, however, a solution. Check out this white paper to learn exactly what it is. Posted: 01 Mar 2012 \| Published: 01 Mar 2012 TOPICS: Content Management \| Data Loss Prevention (DLP) \| Data Management \| Data Recovery \| Data Security \| Data Storage \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

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

Eguide: Tape’s Reincarnation in the Cloud sponsored by Iron Mountain EGUIDE: Check out this E-Guide to learn whether or not tape can play a role in cloud backup and data protection operations. Discover the changing requirements of a cloud-based infrastructure, and learn how tape technology may be on track to help administrators maintain cost-effective backups. Posted: 21 Feb 2012 \| Published: 21 Feb 2012 TOPICS: Cloud Archive \| Cloud Backup \| Cloud Computing \| Cloud Management \| Cloud Storage \| Storage Infrastructure \| Storage Management \| Storage Security \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads

Eguide: The State of Tape: Recent Developments in Tape sponsored by Oracle Corporation EGUIDE: In this SearchStorage.com E-Guide, Rich Castagna discusses the current landscape of the tape market and its role in the data center today. Read on to learn the latest trends in tape systems, advanced drives life the T10000C and where the future of tape lies. Posted: 31 Jan 2012 \| Published: 31 Jan 2012 TOPICS: Backups \| Disk Backups \| Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Optimization \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives

E-Guide: The State of Tape: Recent Developments in Tape sponsored by Oracle Corporation EGUIDE: In this SearchStorage.com E-Guide, Rich Castagna discusses the current landscape of the tape market and its role in the data center today. Read on to learn the latest trends in tape systems, advanced drives life the T10000C and where the future of tape lies. Posted: 22 Dec 2011 \| Published: 22 Dec 2011 TOPICS: Data Deduplication \| Storage Best Practices \| Storage Capacity \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drive Controllers \| Tape Drives \| Tape Heads \| 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

E-Guide: Choosing a Data Archiving Strategy: Disk, Tape or Both? sponsored by Symantec Corporation EGUIDE: Today’s organizations typically have three data archiving strategies they can choose from: disk archiving, tape archiving or a combination of both. This SearchDataBackup.com E-Guide offers insight into the advantages and disadvantages of each method, how to choose the best approach, and the best and worst practices of data archives. Posted: 16 Sep 2011 \| Published: 16 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Integration \| Data Migration \| Data Recovery \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives

E-Guide: Evaluating Deduplication Systems: The key considerations you don’t know about sponsored by HP EGUIDE: In this SearchDataBackup.com E-Guide, storage expert W. Curtis Preston discusses deduplication systems, and the steps you need to take to make sure your dedupe solution is on the right side of those two extremes, while ESG Senior Analyst Lauren Whitehouse offers insight into taking a software or hardware approach to deduplication. Posted: 10 Aug 2011 \| Published: 10 Aug 2011 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Deduplication \| Data Recovery \| Disk Backups \| Storage Systems \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives

IBM Linear Tape File System sponsored by IBM MICROSITE: Built on the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 5 format standard, IBM Linear Tape File System provides a direct, intuitive, graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries using LTO generation 5 tape cartridges. This eliminates the need for additional tape management software to access data. Posted: 11 May 2011 \| Published: 11 May 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Database Management \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library sponsored by IBM MICROSITE: The IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library is designed to provide a highly scalable, automated tape library for mainframe and open systems backup and archive in midrange to enterprise environments. Posted: 11 May 2011 \| Published: 11 May 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Database Management Software \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives \| Tape Libraries

IBM System Storage TS1140 Tape Drive sponsored by IBM MICROSITE: Marketplace and customer demands require applications that rely on high capacity, fast access to data and/or long-term data retention. The IBM System Storage TS1140 Tape Drive features storage capabilities to help you establish easy, rapid access to data, better security, long-term retention and data governance and regulatory compliance. Posted: 10 May 2011 \| Published: 10 May 2011 TOPICS: Data Center Management \| Data Storage \| Storage Devices \| Storage Management \| Tape Backups \| Tape Drives

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

E-Zine: Storage Magazine 2010 Tape Library Quality Awards sponsored by Spectra Logic Corporation EZINE: Spectra Logic tops both the mid-range and enterprise tape library categories in the latest Storage magazine/ SearchStorage.com Quality Awards service and reliability survey. Posted: 02 Mar 2011 \| Published: 01 Dec 2010 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Storage \| Storage Capacity \| Storage Hardware \| Storage Infrastructure \| Surveys \| 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

Presentation Download: Advanced Backup School sponsored by Iron Mountain PRESENTATION TRANSCRIPT: This Advanced Backup School seminar presentation is guaranteed to provide you with time-tested advice and techniques that will make backup easier. Renowned backup guru W. Curtis Preston will review the basics – but will also be going into in-depth detail on the newest issues, technologies, and solutions surrounding backup. Posted: 26 Jan 2011 \| Published: 26 Jan 2011 TOPICS: Backups \| Data Deduplication \| Data Replication \| Disk Backups \| Disk Drives \| Disk-to-Disk Backup \| Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape \| 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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