Tag Archives: Tape library

Why Bus-Tech, why now – Mainframe/System z data growth

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Ray

Yesterday, EMC announced the purchase of Bus-Tech, their partner in mainframe or System z attachment for the Disk Library Mainframe (DLm) product line. The success of open systems mainframe attach products based on Bus-Tech or competitive technology is subject to some debate … Continue reading →

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Protecting the Yottabyte archive

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Ray

In a previous post I discussed what it would take to store 1YB of data in 2015 for the National Security Agency (NSA). Due to length, that post did not discuss many other aspects of the 1YB archive such as … Continue reading →

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