IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. last month each brought out tape drives that can encrypt data, a capability that should help safeguard information on lost or stolen tapes. Both vendors are adding the ...

This week, IBM and Sun Microsystems Inc. are each announcing encryption built directly into a tape drive, which lets users protect data on tapes in case they are lost or stolen. Because the encryption ...

In context: The Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format for tape-based magnetic data recording was developed in the Nineties as an open-standard alternative to proprietary tape formats. The technology provides ...

A record 152.9 exabytes of total compressed tape capacity shipped in the fourth quarter of 2023, an increase of 3.14 percent over 2022. The figures were released by the LTO Program Technology Provider ...