Beyond the Drive: How Tape Actually Reaches Eleven Nines
The drive gives you about four nines in the field. The reliability that archives and AI data demand is built above the drive, with verification, copies, and erasure coding. In…
Beyond the Drive: How Tape Actually Reaches Eleven Nines
The drive gives you about four nines in the field. The reliability that archives and AI data demand is built above the drive, with verification, copies, and erasure coding. In…
NetApp StorageGRID 12.1 Adds a Federated Namespace and Up to 12 TB/s for AI Workloads
The LTO Show Take NetApp pushing StorageGRID to 12 TB/s aggregate throughput and bolting on a federated namespace isn't just an object-store milestone — it reframes the hot-to-cold calculus for…
WORM and Retention: Where Immutability Actually Lives
By The LTO Show Editorial StaffThe compliance team says the data must be immutable. The storage team reaches for a WORM cartridge. And somewhere between those two decisions, a gap…
201 Gb/in 2 Recording Areal Density on Sputtered Magnetic Tape
The LTO Show Take IBM Research's 201 Gb/in² result on sputtered magnetic tape is the headline that archive architects and LTO buyers should bookmark: it confirms the physics ceiling for…
Open RAO, Part II: How “Recommended Access Order” Actually Gets Implemented
Who supports it, which drives have it, and what has to happen before you see the benefit In our last article, we argued that Open RAO—Recommended Access Order—is one of…
Cloud Repatriation isn’t all it seems.
The LTO Show Take Cloud repatriation gets headline traction every time egress-cost stories break, but the LTO Program's May 2026 analysis is a useful corrective for any backup or archive…
LTFS and Self-Describing Tape: Portability as an Archive Strategy
By The LTO Show Editorial StaffThe nightmare scenario for any archive operator: a decade-old tape cartridge, a vendor that no longer exists, and a proprietary catalog database that left with…
LTO tape stores data for $5 per terabyte — here’s why you can’t buy it – MakeUseOf
The LTO Show Take For archive and backup teams already running LTO infrastructure, $5-per-terabyte media costs are a known reality — but MakeUseOf's mainstream take is a useful signal that…
HPE Alletra Storage MP B10000 and NIST CSF 2.0: A Full-Stack Cyber Resilience Architecture
The LTO Show Take HPE benchmarking the Alletra Storage MP B10000 against NIST CSF 2.0's full six-function framework is a meaningful signal for backup and archive architects: cyber resilience is…