Category: LTO

The Puck Stops Here: The Los Angeles Kings and LTO Tape

The next time you come across your favorite sports channel broadcasting footage from a game played decades in the past, think of how they store that content. How do they keep game film from every minute of every game played every year accessible at the drop of a hat?…
Top 5 ways to prepare for LTO-9

LTO9 is Coming, Will You Be Ready? With the imminent release of LTO9, may data center managers and data enthusiasts are looking to upgrade. The increased storage capacity and enhanced data retrieval speeds are reason enough to be excited. Data center storage requirements are changing quickly as a result…
LTO Tape meets long term economical Video Surveillance

You’ve heard of Alexa, and you’re familiar with Siri, now introducing Alice. Actually, its askALICE and its not so much of a digital voice assistant as it is an innovative surveillance system. Cozaint Corporation, a developer of smart physical security products, has revealed their latest solution in askALICE. This…
Spectra unveils its largest, most advanced tape library to date; Introducing Spectra TFinity ExaScale

Spectra unveils its largest, most advanced tape library to date; introducing Spectra TFinity ExaScale SpectraLogic has unveiled its greatest tape library to date, the TFinity ExaScale Edition. The massive tape library has the ability to store an exabyte of data in a single footprint storage system using the most…
LTO Tape – A Classic Data Storage Solution

Linear Tape-Open (LTO) magnetic tape data storage has been around since the turn of the century. However, tape was initially introduced as a storage medium back in the 1950s. Today, it is widely embraced by large enterprises and within the entertainment industry. Tape has come to be relied upon…
Former Uber CSO Charged in Data Breach

Uber’s Massive Data Security Blunder Federal prosecutors have charged Uber’s former Chief Security Officer (CSO), Joseph Sullivan, with obstruction of justice for attempting to hide the company’s 2016 data breach from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The hack exposed vulnerabilities to the names, email addresses. and phone numbers of over 57 million…
Elon Musk & LTO Tape

Tesla – The Data Company Whenever Tesla is brought up in conversation, it almost always provokes one of two reactions: it’s either the most innovative company of our generation and changing the auto industry forever, or going nowhere fast because it has arrows pointed in too many directions at…
Turn Your LTO Tapes Into Ca$h

The World’s Easiest Way to Turn Used Data Tape into Cold Hard Cash Chances are if your business or someone you know has recently upgrade their data storage infrastructure, there is going to be an abundance of old storage media not being used. It makes no sense to have…
Air Gap 101

Imagine this scenario for a second. There is an army of soldiers marching towards your kingdom ready to invade and take over everything you have ever worked for. The only thing separating your livelihood and the potential intruders is a river. As the enemy approaches the bridge in an…
Tape VS. Disk – The Great Data Battle

It’s a no brainer that every business relies upon data for success. Whether you own a retail operation that relies upon inventory databases or a car dealership that depends on a customer list, data storage is a necessity for every business. The way in which data is…