-Nov 18, 20201 minReducing Data Center Energy Consumption and Carbon Emissions with Modern Tape Reducing carbon emissions is a significant global challenge. Many companies have decided they must incorporate carbon reductions into...
-Aug 3, 20202 minAn Innovative Approach to Managing the Digital Data Explosion Today’s Information Technology organizations are experiencing unprecedented growth of digital data. Industry analysts are projecting...
-Apr 7, 20202 minReflections on Storage Technology Showcase 2020 In early March, before conferences of all types across the country shut down and social distancing was mandated, I was sitting in a...
-Dec 19, 20191 minEstimating the Total Cost of Long-Term Data Storage As the amount of data organizations create and manage continues to grow, the cost-effective storage of infrequently accessed information...
-Sep 11, 20192 minTCO Tool V2 has arrived!In conjunction with the availability of LTO 8 tape media, the Fujifilm TCO tool has been significantly enhanced. There are a number of...
-Sep 25, 20181 min2018 updated TCO Tool is here! Late last year, the initial version of the FujiFilm TCO tool was released. It provided an easy way to quickly compare the cost of storing...
-Jun 20, 20181 minTape storage continues to offer the lowest cost TCO for cold data For the storage of “cold” data, that is information that is not going to be accessed frequently, tape storage continues to provide...
-Oct 13, 20171 minLTO 8 is here!The LTO 8 announcement represents a return to the good old days, when the LTO program was running on a two to 2 ½ year announcement cycle...
-Sep 25, 20171 minUsing LTO and LTFS to Improve Media and Broadcast Industries Workflows The LTO Program just released an eBook entitled “Best Practices for Managing Video Workflows” Trust LTO WhitePapers . The Media and...
-Aug 3, 20171 minA new tape storage technology benchmark IBM Research and Sony announced a tape technology demonstration yesterday that would support a potential tape cartridge capacity of 330...
-Aug 2, 20171 minInterested in the history of IBM Data Tape Storage? The Computer History Museum ( http://www.computerhistory.org/ ) just released the video history of IBM tape storage including the IBM...
-Apr 26, 20161 minCloud Storage: Rent or Buy? With data archive requirements continually growing, the Cloud is frequently mentioned as a low cost option for storing infrequently...
-Oct 7, 20151 minIBM Unleashes LTO Generation 7Yesterday IBM announced a comprehensive set of tape storage offering incorporating the new LTO generation 7 tape drives. The new LTO 7...
Bradley JohnsApr 12, 20152 minA cloud storage TCO comparisonThe amount of digital information organizations are generating and retaining continues to grow unabated. It was not that long ago that a...
Bradley JohnsApr 10, 20151 minA view into the future Making storage decisions often requires an estimate of where the underlying technology is going. It’s a bit like driving on a foggy...