The Egress Trap: Modeling Cloud Cold Tiers Honestly Against Tape
By The LTO Show Editorial StaffThe pitch is seductive: archive your cold data to S3 Glacier Deep Archive for less than $1 per terabyte per month. At that surface rate,…
Tape hardware industry analysis and insights from The LTO Show editorial staff.
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…
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…
Reading the LTO Roadmap When You’re Planning a 10-Year Archive
By The LTO Show Editorial StaffBy The LTO Show Editorial Staff If you're buying LTO drives today, you're not just buying for today. You're making decisions that lock in migration…
The 40TB Jump Was Chemistry, Not Density — and Why That Matters
By The LTO Show Editorial Staff By The LTO Show Editorial Staff When LTO roadmap milestones get announced, the headlines default to the headline number: 40TB, 90TB compressed, track count,…
Cold, Not Gone: Why AI’s Training Data Belongs on Tape
By The LTO Show Editorial Staff AI changed the shape of enterprise data. Training pipelines ingest enormous datasets, use them, and then — almost never delete them. That data isn’t…
The Air Gap Is a Feature, Not a Footnote
By The LTO Show Editorial Staff Most storage conversations treat “offline” as a limitation to be engineered away. For a backup of last resort, it’s the entire point. When the…