Sun Microsystems finalized its $4.1 billion acquisition of Storage Technology (StorageTek) on Wednesday, shortly after the data management company’s shareholders voted their approval.

Sun contributed the new code, dubbed Comstar, or common multiprotocol SCSI target, to its OpenSolaris.org open source community last month, noted Scott Tracy, director of storage platforms at Sun.

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A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) social media post boasts of the elimination of tape data storage facilities at the U.S. General Services Administration (GSE). A triumphant Tweet by ...

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The 3592 JF tape cartridge, only available on the IBM TS1170 Tape Drive, reportedly provides the ability to store up to 150TB of data on a single cartridge with a 3:1 compression ratio.

LTO-10 magnetic tape cartridges with native storage capacities of 30TB are announced with shipments of cartridges and drives to occur in June 2025. Newsletters Games Share a News Tip.

Magnetic tape is typically used for archived data because it has a low storage cost, the latest generation LTO-9 magnetic tapes, the most popular tape format, currently sell for about $90 for 18TB ...