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Stop Wasting Servers on Backup Infrastructure Why Modern Virtual Environments Should Move Tape Connectivity into the SAN with the ATTO XstreamCORE 8100T For years, the standard architecture for enterprise tape backup has remained largely unchanged: deploy a dedicated physical backup server, attach tape drives or a tape library locally via SAS or Fibre Channel, and [...]

Rethinking Tape Storage Connectivity: Why Ethernet Beats Traditional Methods By Azim Malik, Product Manager, ATTO Technology, Inc. The AI, cloud, and edge computing-driven explosive growth of data is bringing tape storage back in the spotlight because it is economical, durable, and green. Organizations are using tape as a backup repository, secondary media for storage offloads [...]

5 Myths About Ethernet-Enabled Tape Storage Connectivity - and the Truth Every IT Team Should Know. By Azim Malik, Product Manager, ATTO Technology, Inc. As organizations reassess their data protection and archiving strategies, tape storage is once again asserting its role as an integral tier in modern storage architectures. Its cost efficiency, air-gapped security, and [...]

Software RAID: A New Default for Data Protection? By Azim Malik, Product Manager, ATTO Technology, Inc. Hardware RAID was built for an era where compute was scarce, constrained, and offload was essential. Today, the environment it operates in has undergone an intense transformation. For years, hardware RAID was the standard approach to managing SAS and [...]

New Servers and Storage Keep Getting More Expensive. So Now What? Hardware keeps getting more expensive. The reflex to buy your way out of a performance problem is getting harder to defend. Across IT, the pressure is familiar. Performance demands keep rising. Data sets keep growing. Applications need more throughput than ever. For years the [...]

Unstructured data workloads are reshaping modern infrastructure demands, exposing the growing gap between compute performance and data delivery. As AI, analytics, medical imaging, and large-scale research environments continue to scale, consistent high-performance connectivity has become critical to maintaining throughput, maximizing utilization, and ensuring efficient movement of data between storage and compute.

For decades, ATTO has focused on the in‑between layer—how your workstations actually talk to your storage and network. ATTO ThunderLink® Thunderbolt™ 5 adapters provide workstations a direct on‑ramp to the ELEMENTS hardware and software ecosystem, with dual‑port 100Gb Ethernet or dual‑port 64Gb Fibre Channel models to match both IP and SAN‑centric workflows.

To integrate SAS tape storage into a virtualized environment, PNP Storage deployed the ATTO XstreamCORE 8100T intelligent bridge for a public utility. The 8100T uses iSCSI to allow SAS tape libraries to directly connect to all of the virtual machines over an Ethernet network. The utility now maintains full VM mobility and SLA compliance through a vendor-supported, high-performance backup architecture.

Organizations of all sizes are returning to LTO tape as a cost-effective, reliable, and secure added layer to their data protection strategy. When combined with ATTO Technology’s storage connectivity solutions, organizations can maximize flexibility, efficiency, and build a future-ready infrastructure. Here are two practical deployment scenarios that show how Archiware P5 works seamlessly with both ATTO ExpressSAS® SAS/SATA host bus adapters (HBAs) and ATTO XstreamCORE® 8100T bridges.

Tape technology remains essential for secure, cost-effective data archiving, yet it’s often seen as slow and inflexible. Connectivity limitations have held it back—until now. ATTO Technology’s innovations, like XstreamCORE bridges and ThunderLink adapters, deliver speed, scalability, and ease, unlocking tape’s full potential for modern workloads. Examples for every industry.