INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Fujitsu has announced a new technology called Virtual Integrated File System that it says could help magnetic tape storage compete with hard
disk drives as a low-cost, large capacity storage alternative.With the feud between Sony and Fujitsu around LTO resolved late last year, all
eyes are now on LTO-9, which is expected to be delivered in 2020
individual tape cartridges.It sounds a little like RAID but for tapes, which means that you'll likely need multiple tape drives or a tape
This limits the product to enterprise and large businesses, where storage demands are usually measured in Petabytes and Exabytes.The
Japanese company claims to have improved the read speeds by more than fourfold in one trial run, while another test yielded a speed
occurring in archive applications, and is expected to provide a cost-effective data archiving infrastructure for long-term archiving of
large volumes of data," Fujitsu added.
