• AMI Insurance inks virtual tape deal

  New Zealand-based AMI Insurance has discarded its physical tape storage for a virtual tape library to back-up its critical business data.

• Quantum launches tape library for enterprise

  Backup vendor Quantum has announced a new enterprise tape library to help IT managers deal with tape consolidation in tiered storage environments as data growth skyrockets.

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  NASA releases enhanced Aussie Moon landing videos

  It may be 40 years since man first set foot on the Moon, but only now will people see the “real life” quality footage of Apollo 11 Moonwalk thanks to NASA and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's (CSIRO) Parkes Radio Observatory.

• Geoscience spends big on storage capacity, DR

  Australia’s national geoscience research and information organisation, Geoscience Australia, will spend some $500,000 on new data storage capacity.

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  Users set to ditch tape for online storage

  Users are set to ditch tape as a storage medium as one in 10 businesses have lost data following a failure of a tape backup system.

• To tape or not to tape, that is the question

  Mention Shakespeare and everyone spouts "To be or not to be." Mention backup, and the question becomes, "To tape or not to tape?" Is tape dead, or do tape-based backup systems still have a place in the modern small business?

Whitepapers about tape

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  2012 Data Backup Strategy Guide

  Articles include: 10 best cloud backup strategies for biz continuity, Disk or tape? How about both, Protect Your Backup Data from Murphy’s Law, Back up without crashing.

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  EMC Data Domain Archiver - A Detailed Review