Magnetic tape is the lowest cost and longest lasting storage medium available for long-term data preservation. While it is one of the more mature storage mediums on the market, it…

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As one of 17 Department of Energy national labs, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory pushes the frontiers of knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind by inventing the tools that make those discoveries possible and sharing them with scientists all over the world.

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SLAC Expects Their Total Storage Needs to Reach Upwards of Two Exabytes by 2033

BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that the company deployed an 18-frame Spectra® TFinity® ExaScale Tape Library with LTO-9 tape drives and media at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA. SLAC develops and implements some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, SLAC pushes the frontiers of knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind.

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A long-term modern archive solution should substantially lower operational, maintenance, utility, support and administrative costs. It should be simple to use and easy to install, and free current staff from…

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Data is growing exponentially and its value is often unpredictable. Data archiving is an essential part of managing data storage throughout its lifecycle. According to TechTarget, data archiving is defined…

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There’s a rapid increase in the amount of digital information that is being created, stored and shared in recent years. This explosion of data is driven by a variety of…

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