Information Week -
Tape isn't dead. Here's why it might actually grow in importance and eventually replace many hard disk drives.
I'm heading off to California this weekend to participate in the second annual Tape Summit.
It may be surprising to many that not only is tape not dead, it even
has its own summit! I had a cloud storage startup ask me the other day:
Who still uses tape? My quick answer was more organizations than they
think and then, to really send them over the edge, I stated: "Tape will
eventually replace the hard drive."
As we discussed in our recent article "Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage", tape has several meaningful advantages over disk. ... 続きを読むhttp://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/systems/232601957
