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06 Jan 2013 Top Ten Articles for last few Issues [29193]
Vol 178 Issue 1, 2,3 and 4 ; Vol 177 Issues 1, 2, 3 and 4

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  • Top Apps for Smartphones and Tablets in 2012
  • Data Storage in 2013: 10 Trends Shaping New-Generation Technology
  • 7 Technologies Poised for Failure in 2013
  • The 5 Coolest Hacks Of 2012
  • Manage MySQL from Windows with these five apps
  • Landlines Left Behind as American Households Go Wireless
  • 10 most successful open source projects of 2012
  • The Only Security Prediction That Matters
  • 7 Top Information Security Trends For 2013
  • 10 Practical Ways to Make Your IT System Greener, More Efficient

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30 Dec 2012 Top Ten Articles for last few Issues [28995]
Vol 178 Issue 1, 2 and 3 ; Vol 177 Issues 1, 2, 3 and 4; Vol 176 Issue 5

We track how frequently each article is viewed on the web site to determine which the readers consider the most important. For last week, the top 10 articles were:

  • Mobility Management: The Bigger The Better
  • 4 Key Strategic IT Directions for 2013 and Beyond
  • Overcoming The Challenges To All-Flash Arrays
  • 5 Reasons Outsourcing Is Here To Stay
  • What Is Hybrid Storage?
  • Top 5 Cloud Predictions For 2013
  • SSD Prices Continue To Plunge
  • Top 7 Security Predictions for 2013
  • How to Create a Case for Disaster Recovery Plan
  • BYOD: It's More Complicated than You Might Think

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10 Dec 2012 StorageTek LTO 6 Tape Drives Now Available in StorageTek SL3000 and SL8500 Tape Libraries [28800]
Offer Higher Capacity, Better Performance, Investment Protection

StorageTek LTO 6 tape drives are now available in the StorageTek SL3000 and SL8500 modular tape libraries. This addition enables the following enhancements:

  • Higher Capacity: StorageTek LTO 6 drives have the ability to write 2.5 TB of native data to one LTO 6 cartridge, a 66% improvement over StorageTek LTO 5

  • Better Performance: StorageTek LTO 6 drive performance is 160 MB/sec (uncompressed), 14% faster than LTO 5

  • Investment Protection - StorageTek LTO 6 drives are backward read and write compatible to earlier generations for existing LTO customers
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26 Nov 2012 LTO-6 tape with up to 6.25TB capacity ships [28782]
Computerworld Nov 26th, 2012

"Tape media and drive companies have begun shipping the sixth generation of linear-tape open (LTO) technology, which like previous generation upgrades, significantly increases the capacity and data throughput capabilities for backup and archive applications.

In separate announcements over the past week, Tandberg Data, Imation and Fujifilm announced shipments of LTO-6 cartridge and drive products. The new LTO-6 drives offer 400MBps performance or, using a 2.5:1 compression ratio, up to 1.4TB of data transferred per hour..."
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22 Oct 2012 IBM Prepares to Demo 125TB MONSTER Tape [28283]
The Register October 19, 2012

"IBM has revealed it is preparing a technology demonstration of a 125TB tape, and has revealed that LTO-6 tapes use shingling, with overlapped data tracks.

In January 2010, IBM demonstrated a tape with 35TB of raw capacity. Apply LTO-6's 2.5:1 compression ratio to that and you get 87.5TB. This contrasted with the then-current LTO-5 tape's raw capacity of 1.5TB.

The LTO consortium has a roadmap of two more formats: LTO-7 with 6.48TB raw capacity, and LTO-8 with 12.8TB. Assuming that the upcoming LTO format capacity doubling, IBM's 35TB tape, created with the help of Fujifilm, would fit between a conceivable LTO-9 with around $25TB and an LTO-10 with 50TB..."
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