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Much of the analysis about the notion of IBM buying Sun Microsystems has focused on fashionable things like open-source software. Tape drives, by contrast, seem an artifact from a bygone era. But they ...

IBM has launched a tape drive that increases the capacity of existing cartridges by 50 percent. The TS1155 uses the new ‘Gen 5A’ mode to write up to 15TB of uncompressed data onto a single cartridge.

IBM announced the general availability of the industry’s first magnetic tapes and drives based on the LTO-9 Ultrium specification for massive data capacity and resilience. The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) 9 ...

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.

IBM Corp. is unveiling Thursday a new virtual tape drive management system for mainframes that compares to similar technology introduced last spring by rival Sun Microsystems Inc. The IBM System ...

Many in IT believe that the future of storage is entirely disk and that tape is just for archiving--but not IBM. The company this week launched three new tape drives, including a tape virtualization ...