By David Fox Executive Summary: Archiving and backing up data to the cloud is often slower than writing to local tape or disk, due to internet upload speeds limiting the data transfer rate available. By employing an AWS Snowball device,
Is there a storage medium between disk and tape? Yes, and it´s called Silent Bricks.
by Dr.Marc M. Batschkus Disk storage is everywhere, can be combined to fast RAIDs and large SAN systems to cover almost any need for speed and capacity. There are more disk storage products on the market than anyone can possibly
P5 Archive: Transfer to Cloud Storage using a Backblaze B2 Fireball
By David Fox P5 version 5.6 includes a new feature which enable large data-sets to be archived to cloud storage by first obtaining a disk from the cloud provider for archiving locally across your LAN, and then having this disk
What to do with all those tapes?
by Marc M. Batschkus and Clay Teramo – CEO The Data Media Source, San Jose, California LTO Tape is an excellent storage media, but what to do when tape sets are replaced or no longer needed? We recently learned of
Understanding LTFS – What it’s for and how we use it
By David Fox LTFS brings together the convenience and familiarity of a removable disk, with the capacity, reliability and price-per-terabyte of tape. Since P5 version 5.6 now supports LTFS, this article looks at the reasons LTFS exists