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• Tape Fallacies Exposed - The Future of Tape Is Still Bright- Mesabi Group
• The Evolving Role of Disk and Tape in the Data Center -- Best Practices for Backup and Long-term Data Retention - Sylvatica Consultants
• Securing Sensitive Information -- an examination of information security issues, methods and securing data with LTO-4 tape drive encryption.  -  Silverton Consulting  
• Disk and Tape Square Off Again -- Tape Remains King of the Hill with LTO-4 - The Clipper Group
• The Truth About Tape - The Clipper Group
• Tape: An Ongoing Bulwark for Data Protection -- Mesabi Group
• Is it Safe? The Business Impact of Data Protection (presented at Gartner Data Center Conference, 2007)
• Rock Solid Disaster Recovery, Dick Cosby (presented at Gartner Data Center Conference, 2007)
• Protecting Confidential Data: The Role of Tape Encryption (whitepaper and Webcast presentation)
• Obtaining Maximum Return on Your Tape Investment: Accelerating Performance and Expanding Tape's Role for Lower TCO - Ideas International
• Tape and Disk Costs - What it Really Takes to Power the Drives - The Clipper Group
• Disk-to-Disk Backup: It's Also about Tape - Data Mobility Group
• Is Tape Really Cheaper Than Disk? Total Cost of Ownership Update: Disk vs. Tape - Data Mobility Group
• Data Protection: Adapting to the Sea Change - The Mesabi Group
• LTO WORM Compliance Assessment - Cohasset Associates
• LTO Has It All: Reliability, Scalability, Performance, and Openness - Aberdeen Group
• LTO Technology and Storage Area Networks -- A Winning Combination (2002)
• LTO Program -- The First Year (1999)
• LTO Ultrium: Confirming the Value Proposition - IDC
• LTO Program Format Compliance Verification Testing -- Focus on Interchange