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Enterprise Computing: Six Reasons Why Tape is Still Alive and Kicking!

By On May 18, 2010 · 3 Comments · In Featured

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.

Because we just spent $5million on huge automated tape libraries (that mount each tape on average once [...]

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Enterprise Computing: The Long Term Future of Tape

By On March 24, 2009 · 4 Comments · In Uncategorized

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 strategic future in anyone’s business”.  D_Ced picked up on this and questioned me about it [...]

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Why Tape Technology Just Doesn’t Cut It

By On July 17, 2008 · 3 Comments · In Uncategorized

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 precious data. HP have also announced plans to extend [...]

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