At a session during StorageTek's annual Forum conference, users were prompted into an enthusiastic discussion on mainframe tape, and the trials and tribulations of migrating tape data when companies ...

This metal object is the read-write head from the UNISERVERO VI-C tape drive (part of the UNIVAC 9400). A mark on a sticker on one side reads; 503648-00. Another mark on another sticker on this side ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This circuit board from the UNISERVO ...

Storage vendor EMC today announced it has completed the purchase of privately-help virtual tape library (VTL) vendor Bus-Tech for an undisclosed amount. Bus-Tech, a Bedford, Mass.-based firm with 45 ...

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It’s ...

Sun Microsystems and IBM are both introducing data tape encryption technology this week, protecting against a security breach that can endanger or embarrass an enterprise. Sun unveiled on Wednesday ...

Ask most people about mainframes and they’re likely to think they’re a thing from the past. In a way they’re right, of course. The mainframe has been around for half a century or more. But mainframes ...