IBM today introduced what it claims is the highest-capacity and most powerful tape storage device in the world, the TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592. Compared with the specifications of Storage ...

IBM announced its TS1170 magnetic tape drive, supporting storage capacities up to 50TB native and higher capacities with compression. The product has a native data rate of 400 MB/s and has a 12Gb SAS ...

Back in the day: Consumers stopped using magnetic tape storage so long ago that many reading this are likely too young to know what it is. However, its ability to store massive amounts of data on ...

ALMADEN, CALIFORNIA — IBM has begun work on new technologies designed to boost the capacity of tape storage devices by 250 times. Using “nanopatterning” techniques derived from the company’s ...

IBM last week bolstered its tape storage portfolio with new media, encryption and data retention capabilities, as well as a new virtual tape library that makes backing up data a more efficient affair.