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Tape Secures its Place in the Future of Enterprise Storage

I recently read an article in StorageNewsletter entitled "End of Removable Storage Media" and I agreed with many of the points including the demise of removable consumer media such as floppies, zip disks, CDs and DVDs. But I disagree about tape being on the way out like the rest of removable media from the past.… Read more

How to Choose the right DAM and Archive System for your Media

How to Ensure Your DAM and Archive Systems Will Work Hand in Hand With today’s fast-paced demands for media production, content creators are often so focused on the tasks in front of them that once a project is done they are already looking to the next one. However, often overlooked in the content-creation pipeline is… Read more

Tiering RAID and LTO Data Tape for Video Surveillance Storage: Cost of Ownership

Now that high capacity LTO-8 data tape systems are shipping, we have received a lot of interest in using our combined RAID-LTO systems for video surveillance storage. Retaining infrequently accessed video on low cost LTO tape combined with caching the last few days of surveillance footage on RAID saves money and makes a lot of… Read more

Migrating Legacy Archives

Migration from legacy archives was a major theme at NAB this year. Many of the visitors to the XenData booth have large legacy LTO tape archives that they want to convert to the Cloud or to modern on-premises LTO-8 archives. In many cases, there is an urgency to convert, driven by escalating maintenance costs for… Read more

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XenData Announces Support for ALTO Disk-Based Archives

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