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RSS tape drivePhotos: Britain's first business computer
Photo This isn't a filing cabinet but actually where the tape drive and memory modules for the Elliott 803 were housed - the core memory can be seen in the centre of the cabinet. The National Museum of Computing's Murrell explains: "Elliott the company... [05 Sep 2008]
Canada Web Hosting Counts on Dell Products and Services to Help Drive Its Success in the Highly Complex and Competitive World of Managed Hosting
White Paper Canada Web Hosting deployed more than 700 Dell servers, including PowerEdge and PowerEdge SC; over 35 Dell PowerConnect Gigabit Ethernet switches for LAN switching; and storage solutions based on both Dell PowerVault tape libraries and Dell/EMC... [04 Aug 2008]
HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.5: Advanced Backup to Disk - Performance White Paper
White Paper This white paper covers HP ProLiant Windows 2003 server connected to HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) disk arrays and different tape drive technologies (LTO and SDLT). This white paper provides performance-related information for HP... [03 Jul 2008]
Companies Rely on Strategix: Strategix Relies on Quantum and VERITAS
White Paper Strategix purchased two ValueLoaders, one with a VS 80 tape drive and the other with a VS 160. Strategix is an American company, with a global delivery model. As companies interested in moving part of their operations overseas, struggle to find a... [03 Jul 2008]
HP DAT Tape Drives - Proven Reliability: Why HP Enhanced the MTBF and Error Rate Specifications for DDS-4 and DAT 72 Tape Drives
White Paper HP provides MTBF and bit error rate specifications for its tape drive products as a guide to the reliability a customer can expect in using the drive. Two of the key metrics of reliability used by the tape industry are mean time between failures... [03 Jul 2008]
Optimizing the Benefits of DAT Autoloaders
White Paper Automated backup occurs when tape drives and robotics are enclosed in a single enclosure, which can be commanded to automatically place media from a storage slot into the drive(s) located within the same enclosure. [03 Jul 2008]
Proactive Data Protection: The Best Defense Is a Good Offense
White Paper Coping with failed backups, tape-drive failures, and media errors consumes nearly two-thirds of the effort associated with storage management. Backup and recovery remains the top pain point among most storage management organizations. [03 Jul 2008]
DAT - Cutting the Cost of Tape Backup
White Paper The purchase price of a tape drive is only the first part of the overall cost of your ongoing backup solution. Annual purchasing of tape cartridges can quickly overtake the initial outlay and give you the true cost of ownership. [03 Jul 2008]
Digital Speed Matching: Getting the Most Performance
White Paper To help solve this performance inconsistency problem, tape drive vendors have devised various ways to maintain throughput under slow or varying host data transfer rate conditions. Under a series of benchmark tests to compare the relative... [03 Jul 2008]
Data Protection Solutions for Scaled Storage
White Paper The paper shows how a single investment in storage can grow incrementally to meet data protection needs, getting the best out of existing tape library and tape drive investments, while introducing a number of critical benefits for today's always... [03 Jul 2008]
IBM LTO Ultrium Performance Considerations
White Paper This paper provides performance information on the IBM LTO Ultrium tape drive. A tape drive's performance is effected by a number of factors. It is intended for use by IBM field personnel and their customers in designing tape solutions for their... [03 Jul 2008]
Storage Networking Libraries and Drive Performance
White Paper This white paper discusses the significant write performance increases for library configurations that connect tape drives to a switched fabric through an ADIC Storage Networking Library controller in comparison to similar drives connected... [03 Jul 2008]
Performance Tuning Guide for Oracle 9i Backup Using hp StorageWorks Ultrium 460 Tape Drive
White Paper This white paper focuses on using the HP StorageWorks Ultrium 460 tape drive in the highly demanding Oracle 9i environment, running under the HP-UX 11.11 operating system and using HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.0. [03 Jul 2008]
Performance Tuning Guidelines for hp StorageWorks Ultrium 460 Tape Drive in File, Print, and Serve Environments
White Paper The white paper describes several techniques that can be used to improve performance and addresses how the HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drive, with its unique Adaptive Tape Speed (ATS) gives the best possible performance even in slower host... [03 Jul 2008]
Snatching Chaos from the Jaws of Order: The Myth of Open Systems inTape Backup
White Paper Five of these issues, addressed in this paper, are: No organization dictates compatibility between LTO devices; A tape written on one drive may not be read by a drive from another vendor; Uncertain commitment to the business by the drive... [03 Jul 2008]
