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 ...

IBM's TS1120 aims to allow users to encrypt data at a tape level, whether they are using Big Blue mainframes or Unix systems, for example. The drives will also allow users to encrypt data without ...

IBM and Sun have each added encryption capabilities to their high-end tape drives. They also announced tools for managing the keys used to encrypt and decrypt data stored on the tape drives.

IBM is also touting the cost benefits of tape, saying it costs $.0059/GB per month, or $5.89/TB. An LTO-9-based tape library can store up to 39PB of compressed data in a 10-square-foot tape ...

The company has a long history of storage innovations, and robust, massively scalable tape storage has played a central role in IBM’s mainframe business for decades.

Magnetic tape drives have been around for more than six decades now. It's commercial use has been mostly for storing data, such as tax documents and health care records, from mainframe computers ...

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 ...