LTO technology was introduced to the market more than a decade ago by the LTO Consortium, comprised of the technology provider companies (TCPs), HP, IBM and Quantum. LTO is a standardized digital tape ...

The file-based environment has become highly desirable, and there are very compelling reasons for this. Once we break away from real-time transfers, then we open up the possibility of new workflow ...

Managing data storage is ever more complex. IT teams have to wrestle with local, direct-attached storage, storage area networks, network attached storage and cloud storage volumes. They might be ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...