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September 7, 2012  4:13 AM

Tape has taken up tennis



Posted by: Editor
data storage, tape

“Tape is dead” is probably one of the most successful aphorisms in IT; it is oft repeated and also represents the triumph of a sound bite over reality. The truth is that the global tape market is in a state of very slow shrinkage, being eaten at by disk-based methods of storage, although in the...

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July 11, 2011  9:05 AM

Tape’s future in the data centre is assured



Posted by: David Boyd
backup, data deduplication, disk, tape

With the reduction in the per terabyte cost of disk and the advance of data deduplication technologies there has been an increase in speculation about what the future holds for linear tape.

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