The business world has lengthy relied on tape storage as a cost-effective medium for protecting critical business goods from becoming lost due to system failure, operator errors, theft and natural disasters. The good news for many enterprises is that an aging technology that has expanded lain dormant is once again springing back to life through the launch of new products spanning the small to very large business environments.

For example, it is significant that both IBM and Sun Microsystems

have unveiled new tape-drive products that month that promise to break the one-terabyte-capacity barrier. Moreover, HP and Sony now say they will be partnering in the creation of a next-generation Digital Audio Tape (DAT) format that will deliver improved performance and capacity by current DAT tape offerings.

An Ideal Choice

Many small to midsize businesses currently rely on DAT to back up and restore critical business documents. So it’s […]

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