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From Brookhaven National Laboratory The Scientific Data and Computing Center (SDCC) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has reached a major milestone: It now...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/10/14/brookhavens-scientific-data-and-computing-center-reaches-300pb-of-on-tapes/

Tape Ark, East Perth, Australia, has been assigned a patent (12033679) developed by Holmes; Guy, East Perth, Australia, for a “tape reader.“ The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. P...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/08/28/tape-ark-assigned-patent/

By Shawn Brume, tape evangelism and strategy, IBM Corp.   Every industry stores massive amounts of archival data, with new creation of data accelerating. Although every organization has unique d...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/08/15/ibm-s3-glacier-storage-classes-bring-benefits-of-tape-into-mainstream/

Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (12027182) developed by Prigge; Carsten, Elizabeth, CO, Goker; Turguy, Oceanside, CA, Greenwood Village, CO, Hald; Bruno, Parker, CO,...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/08/12/quantum-assigned-patent-37/

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (12020730) developed by Nakashio; Eiji, Anno; Kazuo, Tochikubo; Shinya, and Iwama; Takanobu, Tokyo, Japan, for a “cartridge including ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/08/07/sony-assigned-patent-14/

MagStor announced availability of the ePro 10G series of tape archive devices featuring unrivaled cost and performance for backing up and archiving data stores of all sizes. Available in desktop ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/07/01/magstor-epro-10g-lto-libraries-series-with-2x10gbe-ports/

Magnetic tape cartridge, drive, detection method of servo pattern, and program FujiFilm Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11996128) developed by Nakano; Megumi, Musha; Atsush...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/06/27/fujifilm-assigned-eight-patents/

Replicating data to plurality of replication devices through tape device International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (11983430) developed by Brume, Shawn O...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/06/25/ibm-assigned-eight-patents-3/

Seek time to beginning position of data on tape media Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11990154) developed by Sakagami, Akira, Kanagawa, Japan, Hamagu...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/06/26/western-digital-technologies-assigned-three-patents-4/

IBM Corp. is making available the S3 Deep Archive entry configuration to its Diamondback Tape Library, to deliver S3 archival solution to store cold data. To enable S3 glacier capabilities, Machi...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/06/17/ibm-diamondback-tape-library-with-s3-deep-archive-entry-configuration/

By Matt Ninesling, senior director, tape portfolio management, Spectra Logic Corp.     Did you know that according to the International Energy Agency, data centers globally consume about 200 te...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/06/11/eco-friendly-tape-technology-by-spectra-logic/

Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11961541) developed by Leuschner, Jeff, Wylie, TX, Burling, Doug, Plano, TX, and Lu, YingPing, Markham, CA, for “system and method...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/05/27/quantum-assigned-patent-36/

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11955148) developed by Nakashio, Eiji, and Iwama, Takanobu, Tokyo, Japan, for “cleaning tape and cartridge.“ The abstract of ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/05/22/sony-group-assigned-patent-7/

Data is an invaluable asset and millions of users and services are creating large amounts of data every day and storing such massive amount of data is a challenge. For this, enterprises have been...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/05/16/how-to-recover-data-from-lto-9-tape/

FujiFilm Corp. implement a price update for its data storage media products. Due to the increase of raw material costs, it will increase the price of its LTO Ultrium 9 Data Cartridges effective J...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/05/09/fujifilm-lto-cartridge-prices-increase-effective-july-1/

NEC Platforms, Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11942109) developed by Ojima, Kenichi, Kanagawa, Japan, for “member, magnetic tape device, adjustment method.“ The abstract o...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/05/08/nec-platforms-assigned-patent-6/

Spectra Logic Corp. announced the introduction of LumOS library management software and the addition of 2 members to its family of enterprise tape storage solutions. The new members are the TFini...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/19/spectra-logic-introduces-lumos-library-management-software-with-two-new-tape-libraries/

Spectra Logic Corp. announced the addition of the Spectra Cube tape library to the company’s family of enterprise tape storage solutions. Designed for clouds and optimized for ease of use, the ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/15/nab-show-and-isc-high-performance-spectra-logic-unveils-spectra-cube-lto-tape-library-for-cloud-deployments/

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA, has been assigned a patent (11935570) developed by Wyman, Robert Olin, Berthoud, CO, and Abbott, Jr., Frank Patrick, Brighton, CO, for a “d...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/19/oracle-international-assigned-patent/

Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO, has been assigned a patent (11934278) developed by Thompson, Nathan Christopher, Boulder, CO, Starr, Matthew Thomas, Lafayette, CO, Ninesling, Matthew, Arv...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/16/spectra-logic-assigned-patent-27/

To read this article from CloudSoda, click on: Why Tape Back-up is Dead in Media and Entertainment With the advancement of digital technologies, the limitations of tape storage have become glarin...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/11/why-tape-backup-dead-in-me/

Magnetic recording device having redundant servo readers and method for using same Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11935562) developed by Biskeborn, ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/09/western-digital-technologies-assigned-two-patents-5/

Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11929092) developed by Goker, Turguy, Oceanside, CA, Peng, James P., Santa Maria, CA, and Saliba, George, Boulder, CO, for “system...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/10/quantum-assigned-patent-35/

Following the recent post about Cloudian promoting advantages of object storage over tapes, we received the following answer from Bradley Johns, from Brad Johns Consulting LLC. The Cloudian TCO r...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/02/response-to-cloudian-object-store-vs-tape-tco-whitepaper/

Servo pattern recording device, magnetic tape, cartridge, drive, system, detection device, servo pattern recording method, and manufacturing method of magnetic tape FujiFilm Corp., Tokyo, Japan, ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/04/02/fujifilm-assigned-nineteen-patent/

Quantum Corp. announced the Scalar i7 RAPTOR, a tape innovation to support growing AI use cases. Built to handle AI workflows for hyperscale customers, MSPs and large enterprises, the Scalar i7 R...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/26/quantum-unveils-upcoming-scalar-i7-raptor-for-data-lakes-to-fuel-ai-models-private-and-hybrid-clouds-and-data-protection/

Effective September 30, 2024, IBM Corp. will end of manufacturing and support for all 3592 Generation 3 Type C tape media products, including IBM 3592 Tape Media JC-JK-JY. . The discontinued prod...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/19/end-of-manufacturing-and-support-for-ibm-3592-gen-3-tape-media-supplies-for-select-tape-drives/

Magnetic tape drive and assembly for tape drive MagStor Inc., Columbus, OH, has been assigned a patent (11892961) developed by Mindlin, Aleksandr, Dublin, OH, for “magnetic tape drive and assem...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/03/04/magstor-assigned-patent-2/

Spectra Logic Corp. has validated its On-Prem Glacier solutions for deployment in NetApp StorageGRID object-based storage environments. This combination creates a hybrid cloud storage infrastruct...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/02/13/spectra-logic-extends-object-based-tape-tier-to-netapp-storagegrid/

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11854585) developed by Sekiguchi, Noboru, Kamoshita, Yuuko, and Yamaga, Minoru, Tokyo, Japan, for “magnetic recording medium an...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/30/sony-group-assigned-patent-6/

With their strategic partnership, PoINT Software & Systems GmbH and Hammerspace, Inc. present a solution for the integration of tape in a standardized, global data environment. Users benefit from...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/23/hammerspace-and-point-software-in-partnership-for-s3-to-tape-in-global-data-environment/

Hammerspace, Inc. announced that its Global Data Environment software now incorporates data on any storage option – from flash, NAS, object, cloud and now tape. Hammerspace Global Data Environm...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/22/hammerspace-expands-global-data-environment-to-include-data-on-tape-providing-visibility-and-standards-based-file-access-on-any-storage-type/

Magnetic recording medium, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic recording and reproducing device FujiFilm Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11842756) developed by Fujimoto, ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/17/fujifilm-assigned-fourteen-patents-2/

Tape erase element included in tape erase device to erase tape medium International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (11837263) developed by Harper, David, Vail, AZ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/18/ibm-assigned-thirteen-patents-2/

Spectra Logic Corporation, Boulder, CO, has been assigned a patent (11830528) developed by Ninesling, Matthew John, Arvada, CO, Benson, Jon, Boulder, CO, and Cubbon, Ian, Tucson, AZ, for an “un...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2024/01/02/spectra-logic-assigned-patent-26/

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11817137) developed by Biskeborn, Robert G., Hollister, CA, for “high concurrent channels magnetic recording head h...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/12/25/western-digital-technologies-assigned-patent-7/

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11790945) developed by Yamaga, Minoru, Nakashio, Eiji, Anno, Kazuo, Iwama, Takanobu, Adachi, Naohiro, and Tochikubo, Shinya, Tokyo, Jap...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/12/21/sony-assigned-patent-13/

Tape recording system and method for reading media having write-append head-positioning based on change in tape lateral dimension Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assign...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/11/08/western-digital-technologies-assigned-three-patents-3/

To read this white paper from Overland-Tandberg published on April 2023, click on: Tape Sustainability: The new future of magnetic tape storage Interestingly, storing cold data on tape storage ca...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/11/new-future-of-magnetic-tape-storage/

Magnetic recording medium, tape cartridge, and data processing Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11749305) developed by Yamaga, Minoru, and Hashimoto, Kazuya, Miya...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/10/05/sony-assigned-patent-12/

The Tape Storage Council has published its Market Outlook 2023. Below the intro of the report you can download from here. Introduction As the widespread impact of Covid-19 eases, new concerns hav...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/29/tape-primed-for-rise-of-secondary-storage/

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., has been assigned a patent (11735223) developed by Hanaoka, Koumei, Odawara, Japand, and Kobayashi, Masahito, Ushiko, Japan, for a “head suspension system fo...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/26/western-digital-technologies-assigned-patent-6/

Method of total dimensional stability control in magnetic tape system with global calibration data Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11741993) developed by Goker, Tur...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/28/quantum-assigned-patent-34/

Symply announces a nrange of LTO appliances with Ethernet connectivity that expands the SymplyPRO family. Designed for Ethernet-based and hyperconverged environments including M&E, enterprises an...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/14/ibc-2023-symply-ethernet-connected-lto-appliances/

UltraBac Software announces support of IBM TS1170 high density tape drive and 3592 JF1 native capacity 50TB tape cartridge.  With the TS1170’s built-in hardware compression a single 3592 JF ta...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/14/ultrabac-software-supports-ibm-ts1170-tape-drive/

To read this article from IEEE Spectrum, click on: Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior Tape media generates just 3% of the carbon dioxide that hard disks do. The post Tape Storag...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/13/tape-storage-might-be-computings-climate-savior-2/

Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA, has been assigned a patent (11727955) developed by Jhatakia, Jitesh Bakul, Superior, CO, Wharton, Cathleen Susan, Louisville, CO, Black, III,...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/13/oracle-assigned-patent-6/

Spectra Logic Corp. announced support for the IBM TS1170 tape drive in its enterprise-class libraries. The incorporation of this latest-gen of tape drive and its corresponding media brings new le...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/06/spectra-logic-supports-ibm-ts1170-drives-in-tape-librairies/

FujiFilm Corp. and IBM Corp. announced the development of a 50TB native tape storage system, featuring the highest native data tape cartridge capacity (1). FujiFilm has commenced production of th...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/09/06/fujifilm-and-ibm-develop-50tb-native-3592-jf-tape-cartridge-for-ts1170-drive/

IBM TS1170 tape drives offer organizations a way to improve capacity, deliver fast access to data, and secure long-term retention for less than the cost of disk or flash solutions. It also helps ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/28/ibm-ts1170-tape-drive-70f-and-70s-for-ts4500-deliver-up-to-50tb-native-capacity/

To read this article from IEEE Spectrum, click on: Tape Storage Might Be Computing’s Climate Savior Tape media generates just 3 percent of the carbon dioxide that hard disks do The post Tape ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/17/tape-storage-might-be-computings-climate-savior/

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems – Series S (DCDS-S) has published an article written by Iñigo Arregui, Dept. of Mathematics, Universidade da Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain, and CITI...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/02/rd-numerical-simulation-of-time-dependent-lubrication-problem-arising-in-magnetic-reading-processes/

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11688425) developed by Yamaga, Minoru, Sato, Tooru, and Hashimoto, Kanako, Tokyo, Japan, for a “magnetic recording medium.“ T...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/03/sony-group-assigned-patent-4/

Hybrid dedicated and dynamic servo for tape Western Digital Technologies, Inc., has been assigned a patent (11688420) developed by Malina, James N., Irvine, CA, Kobayashi, Masahito, Fujisawa, Jap...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/31/western-digital-technologies-assigned-two-patents-4/

Storage control apparatus and method Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11688422) developed by Iizawa, Ken, Yokohama, Japan, for “storage control apparatus and storage c...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/08/02/fujitsu-assigned-two-patents/

Overland-Tandberg announced the expansion of its NEOxl 40 series tape library, increasing the maximum number of supported expansion modules from 6 to 15, for a total storage capacity of up to 28....

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/19/overland-tandberg-neoxl-40-series-tape-library-expansion-up-to-28-8pb-storage-and-640-lto-9-cartridge-slots/

Magnetic tape having characterized coefficient of variation of e-iron oxide powder particle size, magnetic tape cartridge, and magnetic recording and reproducing apparatus FujiFilm Corporation, T...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/18/fujifilm-assigned-six-patents-3/

Duplicating tape media within tape storage system based on copy tape database International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (11662954) developed by Itagaki, ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/19/ibm-assigned-four-patents-4/

Vorgeschlagen von OpenStorage AG, die Qualstar Q40 liefert eine hohe Leistung und Skalierbarkeit für schnelle Datenwiederherstellung im Backup-/Recoveryfall und bei der Langzeitarchivierung. Die...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/07/14/qualstar-q40-tape-library-jetzt-mit-640-slots-und-28-8pb-kapazitat/

NEC Platforms, Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11657838) developed by Urahama, Hidehiro, Kanagawa, Japan, for “cleaning enabling device, cleaning device, and magnetic tape de...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/29/nec-platforms-assigned-patent-4/

Tape head design having same gap verify capabilities Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11646053) developed by Seagle, David J., Goncharov, Alexander, M...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/26/western-digital-technologies-assigned-two-patents-3/

Quantum Corporation, San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11657849) developed by Todd, Christian Allen, Parker, CO, Baker, Jesse, Sheridan, CO, Rockwell, Scott M., Aurora, CO, and Yearsley, ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/06/09/quantum-assigned-patent-32/

The LTO Program Technology provider companies, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, International Business Machines Corporation and Quantum Corporation, released their annual tape media shipment r...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/24/48-3eb-uncompressed-capacity-shipped-on-lto-in-2022/

Portable tape storage on mobile platform International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (11621019) developed by Harper, David, Vail, AZ, and Goodman, Gregory,...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/15/ibm-assigned-seven-patents-6/

Magnetic recording medium Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11615812) developed by Yamaga, Minoru, Iwama, Takanobu, and Takahashi, Jun, Miyagi, Japan, for a “mag...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/08/sony-group-assigned-five-patents/

To read this white paper from Overland Tandberg, click on: Tape Sustainability: The new future of magnetic tape storage Environmental sustainability is rising on CEO agendas, and 9% of CEOs put i...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/12/tape-sustainability/

IBM Diamondback Tape Library with five-year customer replaceable unit (CRU) warranty IBM Diamondback Tape Libraryhttps://www.ibm.com/products/diamondback-tape-library offers flexible configuratio...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/05/ibm-diamondback-tape-library-2/

IBM Storage Expert Care delivers a simplified method to select services and support for the IBM Diamondback Tape Library IBM Storage Expert Care extends its simplified and standardized support ap...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/01/ibm-storage-expert-care-delivers-simplified-method-to-select-services-and-support/

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11615807) developed by Biskeborn, Robert G., Hollister, CA, Ruiz, Oscar J., San Jose, CA, Kuroki, Kenji, Fujisawa, Ja...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/05/02/western-digital-technologies-assigned-patent-4/

MagStor, a subsidiary of Magnext LTD, announced availability of the PetaByte Machine featuring unrivaled cost and performance for enterprise backup and M&E archiving. PetaByte Machine front and r...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/04/20/magstor-petabyte-machine-with-up-to-280-slots-and-21-half-height-or-7-full-height-lto-drives-mid-size-tape-library-solution/

  By Shawn Brume, tape evangelism and strategy, IBM Corp.     Organizations that need long-term retention of large amounts of data often rely on tape storage due to its endurance, low energy c...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/01/30/from-ibm-random-file-access-on-tape-rao-accelerates-data-retrieval/

Recording tape cartridge Fujifilm Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11521652) developed by Sumiya, Yosuke, Kanagawa, Japan, for a “recording tape cartridge.” The abstract...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/01/26/fujifilm-assigned-eleven-patents/

Automatic volume statistical and performance information tracking International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (11513741) developed by Ahmad, Said, Ngo, Kha...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/01/24/ibm-assigned-twenty-patents-5/

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics has published an article written by Yasuaki Nakamura, Taisei Akamatsu, Madoka Nishikawa, and Yoshihiro Okamoto, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Ehime Un...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/01/16/rd-performance-evaluation-of-burst-error-correction-by-ldpc-coding-and-iterative-decoding-system-in-magnetic-tape-drive/

Storage device compensating for magnetic tape distortion when shingle writing data tracks Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11532330) developed by Bisk...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/01/18/western-digital-technologies-assigned-three-patents-2/

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11527260) developed by Yamaga, Minoru, Iwama, Takanobu, and Takahashi, Jun, Miyagi, Japan, for “magnetic recording medium, magn...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2023/01/10/sony-group-assigned-patent-3/

Read head having one or more antiferromagnetic layers below soft bias side shields, and related methods Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11514936) dev...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/12/26/western-digital-technologies-assigned-three-patents/

Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11495270) developed by Namihisa, Miki, Uefune, Kouki, Kanagawa, Japan, and Takahashi, Toshio, Tokyo, Japan, for a “...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/12/29/western-digital-technologies-assigned-patent-3/

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11508407) developed by Sekiguchi, Noboru, Yamaga, and Minoru, Miyagi, Japan, for a “magnetic recording medium having controlled dimen...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/12/19/sony-assigned-patent-11/

Quantum Corp., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11508410) developed by Goker, Turguy, Solana Beach, CA, and Saliba, George A., Boulder, CO, for “magnetic tape cartridge with increased ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/12/20/quantum-assigned-patent-30/

MagStor, Inc. announced a white paper (WP) written by Saliba Technology Solutions Inc. and the demonstration of the performance benefits of NanoPure Media. NanoPure Media is LTO media that is cle...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/12/16/magstor-white-paper-on-lto-nanopure-media-with-lower-error-rates-mean-reduced-error-correction-activity/

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11495258) developed by Yamaga, Minoru, Miyagi, Japan, for a “magnetic recording medium.“ The abstract of the patent published...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/12/05/sony-group-assigned-patent-2/

Data storage device demodulating servo stripes using matched filter Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11488626) developed by Yamamoto, Satoshi, San Jos...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/11/21/western-digital-technologies-assigned-two-patents-2/

Sony Group Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11482245) developed by Yamaga, Minoru, Miyagi, Japan, for “tape-shaped magnetic recording medium including magnetic layer havin...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/11/17/sony-assigned-patent-10/

Recovery device, system, and method NEC Platforms, Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,398,250) developed by Ishii, Hiroaki, Kanagawa, Japan, for “recovery device, recovery sy...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/11/04/nec-platforms-assigned-three-patents/

IBM Corp. is extending its portfolio of data resilience solutions with the Diamondback tape library, a high-density archival storage solution that is physically air-gapped to help protect vs. ran...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/10/27/ibm-diamondback-tape-library/

IMEC vzw, Leuven, Belgium, has been assigned a patent (11462244) developed by Keulemans, Grim, Etterbeek, Belgium, Rochus, Veronique, Embourg, Belgium, Rosmeulen, Maarten, Ghent, Belgium, Rottenb...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/10/25/imec-assigned-patent-2/

Magnetic tape with particular refractive index characteristics, cartridge, and apparatus FujiFilm Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,443,766) developed by Kasada, Norihito,...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/10/24/fujifilm-assigned-fifteen-patents-2/

We got by email this analysis from Brad Johns, president, Brad Johns Consulting LLC, following the publication of this article: LTO Vs. Cloud Storage:     Correcting the Backblaze Cloud Storage...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/10/19/backblaze-model-significantly-overstates-cost-of-lto-solution/

IEEE Control Systems has published an article written by Giovanni Cherubini, IBM Research–Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Abstract: “It is an honor and a challenge to be asked by Thomas Parisini...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/10/12/rd-advanced-control-systems-for-data-storage-on-magnetic-tape-long-lasting-success-story/

Magnetic recording tape having magnetic layer indentations and manufacturing Sony Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,443,767) developed by Yamaga, Minoru, Iwama, Takanobu, ...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/10/04/sony-assigned-three-patents/

Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,410,687) developed by Cai, Yu, Palo Alto, CA, Fu, Chengyan, Zhang, Haoci, Seattle, WA, and Mah, John, Westminster, CO, for “...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/09/21/meta-platforms-assigned-patent-3/

The LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs), Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP, IBM Corp., and Quantum Corp., released an updated LTO tape technology roadmap that extends the LTO...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/09/15/lto-roadmap-extended-to-gen14-with-up-to-576tb-native/

Head assembly with suspension system for tape embedded drive Western Digital Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, has been assigned a patent (11,393,498) developed by Kobayashi, Masahito, Ushiko, Ja...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/08/15/western-digital-technologies-assigned-four-patents-2/

Migrating virtual tapes between different virtual tape storages without host involvement EMC IP Holding Company, LLC (Dell Technologies, Inc.), Hopkinton, MA , has been assigned a patent (11,340,...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/08/03/emc-ip-holding-dell-assigned-four-patents/

Magnetic tape having characterized magnetic layer and magnetic recording and reproducing device FujiFilm Corporation, Tokyo, Japan, has been assigned a patent (11,361,793) developed by Kasada, No...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/07/26/fujifilm-assigned-six-patents-2/

Ordering archived search results International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, has been assigned a patent (11,354,359) developed by Hasegawa, Tohru, Tokyo, Japan, Uetsuki, Hiroaki, Mac...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/07/28/ibm-assigned-seven-patents-5/

Fujifilm Recording Media GmbH informed its dealers and distributors of a 5%-10% price increase over the price of selected manufactured LTO Ultrium data tape products, including LTO-5, LTO-6, LTO-...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/07/20/fujifilm-announces-price-increase-of-lto-cartridges/

Organized annually, the FujiFilm Summit got impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic like other conferences and just restarted face-to-face in San Diego, CA. The last one was in 2019 in San Francisco, C...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/07/08/recap-of-fujifilm-summit-2022/

To read this article from Network World, click on: Data archiving: It doesn’t have to be on tape Long-term data storage can be done in the cloud, on disk drives, and optical disks, but each has...

https://www.storagenewsletter.com/2022/07/08/data-archiving-doesnt-have-to-be-on-tape-2/