Tag Archives: Quantum

Tape vs. Disk, the saga continues

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Ray

Was on a call late last month where Oracle introduced their latest generation T1000C tape system (media and drive) holding 5TB native (uncompressed) capacity. In the last 6 months I have been hearing about the coming of a 3TB SATA … Continue reading →

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Repositioning of tape

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Ray

In my past life, I worked for a dominant tape vendor. Over the years, we had heard a number of times that tape was dead. But it never happened. BTW, it’s also not happening today. Just a couple of weeks … Continue reading →

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Quantum OEMs esXpress VM Backup SW

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Ray

Quantum announced today that they are OEMing esXpress software (from PHD Virtual) to better support VMware VM backups (see press release) . This software schedules VMware snapshots of VMs and can then transfer the VM snapshot (backup) data directly to … Continue reading →

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Data Domain bidding war

Posted on June 3, 2009 by Ray

It’s unclear to me what EMC would want with Data Domain (DD) other than to lockup deduplication technology across the enterprise. EMC has Avamar for Source dedupe, has DL for target dedupe, has Celerra Dedupe and the only one’s missing … Continue reading →

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