I am not going to join the misguided gang cheering the death of tape — tape is alive and well, as the relentless flow of new products proves. But CTOs have significantly reduced the cartridge’s sphere ...

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.

EMC Corp. is looking to tread on IBM’s toes after extending its virtual tape library (VTL) to cater for IBM’s mainframe community. The EMC Disk Library for mainframe (EMC DLm) is a virtual tape ...