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Storage Old, New and Past Due? (Updated)

By Chris M Evans On May 16, 2012 · 2 Comments · In Opinion, Storage

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 and despite everyone’s best attempts, is not dead yet. Tape and backup may not be seen as cool [...]

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

By Chris M Evans 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 Chris M Evans 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 Chris M Evans 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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