Why Tape Technology Just Doesn’t Cut It
There have been a raft of tape announcements in the last week, most notably the two 1TB wannabee’s IBM and Sun. For around a mere $37,000, plus the cost of a cartridge, I can backup 1TB of my most...
View ArticleEnterprise Computing: The Long Term Future of Tape
It’s funny how a small comment made in a blog post strikes a note with people in different ways. In this post on the potential Sun acquisition by IBM, I made the comment “tape doesn’t have a long-term...
View ArticleEnterprise Computing: Six Reasons Why Tape is Still Alive and Kicking!
In homage to Calvin’s post of today, extolling the virtues of tape, I couldn’t help but create my own tongue-in-cheek version of his post. So here are my reasons tape still exists in the enterprise....
View ArticleStorage Old, New and Past Due? (Updated)
It’s been an interesting day of contrasts in the world of storage, one that shows storage is a diverse and wide ranging segment of IT. The Old Tape has been part of the discussion on the twitterverse...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Tape?
Last week I briefly attended the Tape Summit at IP Expo. Unfortunately due to other commitments during the day I was only able to join the round-table. To be fair this was probably the part of the...
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A Tale of Two Archives – BlackPearl and Cleversafe
It’s been a tiring but interesting few weeks of travel lately, with the Spectralogic Summit, VMworld EMEA and IP Expo all happening within a few weeks. One interesting observation coming from these...
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