More than 40 years after arriving in Tucson, computing giant IBM is still churning out innovations in data-storage technology from its labs at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park.

Magnetic tape storage is something many of us will associate with 8-bit microcomputers or 1960s mainframe computers, but it still has a place in the modern data center for long-term backups. It’s ...

Persistent storage is an essential requirement of all computer systems. It provides the ability for data to be retained across server reboots where data in memory would normally be lost. For the past ...

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There was a time, in computing's not-so-distant past, where magnetic tape was the best way to back up large amounts of data. In the mid-90s, tape could store tens or hundreds of gigabytes, while hard ...

Data is a valuable commodity that sits at the heart of our IT systems, whether on-premise or in the public cloud. The need to retain our data on persistent storage media, however, has been around ...