| Tape Council Presents Factors that Reveal Tape as Most Cost-Effective Data Storage Solution |
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| ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 1, 2004 - Tape Technology Council, a non-profit trade association comprised of leading data-storage technology manufacturers, today announced its findings on the factors that contribute to the total cost of ownership (TCO) of data storage solutions. Presented by Tape Council president Rich Harada at Storage Networking World, the findings suggest that IT managers may overlook important criteria when making purchasing decisions for their data protection systems. Read More |
| Why Tape over Disk to Disk? |
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| During the past year, there’s been publicity about how magnetic-disk based products will displace tape storage products as the backup medium. We’ve been looking and continue to look for disk-only based backup in IT centers but haven’t found any. We understand the need for startup companies to claim that they have installed major systems that have removed the tape component. Despite what some claim, tape storage is complimentary to magnetic disk. D2D2T is the ability to move data from a primary disk subsystem to secondary disk subsystem – or cache – and then to tape). D2D uses disk for primary storage and backup copy. |
| Tape Storage Demand in 2005 and Beyond? |
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Storage strategy conversations centered on magnetic tape normally debate questions such as:
Can tape cartridge capacity keep pace with disk drive capacity growth?
Will tape storage continue to be less expensive than disk storage on a per-gigabyte basis?
Will tape remain the preferred backup and archive technology, given theadvancements in disk drives?
What will drive the future growth for tape?
Will tape survive in the long term?
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| You May Use Disk; You Will Use Tape |
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| Disk-based solutions are vying to take over your backup processes. Tape may give an inch, but tape has plenty of inches where that came from... |
| Like an old friend, tape is always there |
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| At one of the world's largest developers of Linux operating system software, an imposing man in a uniform strides through the door, as he does at the same time every afternoon. He is burly, armed and carries in his hands a fireproof metal box with a lock on its hinged lid. He walks purposefully to the IT department, steps up to the IT manager's desk and asks the same question he asks every day... |
| Midrange tape automation is taking a quantum leap |
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| Today's IT professionals face an ever-increasing multitude of problems and issues pertaining to storage management, including logarithmic growth of data storage needs, facility and space constraints, expandability of storage systems, ability to manage systems offsite, ease of use, initial investment cost, investment protection, reliability and serviceability. Recent economic conditions have exacerbated these issues, driving requirements for extreme efficiency and laser-focused effectiveness. |
| Disk and tape coexist harmoniously in the backup market |
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| True, vendors are announcing new, lower priced disk backup systems that can restore data more quickly than tape while almost matching tape's traditionally low price. But according to customers, analysts and vendors, the demand for tape will increase, not diminish, because it's still the only high-capacity media portable and inexpensive enough for long-term, off-site archiving |
| Tape Backup : It's Relied On |
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| "There's a lot of technology that is applied to disk storage today that has not yet been applied to tape," IBM's Barry Rudolph observes. "But as you put more information on a tape cartridge, then you need to get smarter about how to get data off and on." |
| Long Live Tape |
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| OCTOBER 18, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - I've been hanging around the rumor-mongering, low-cost disk drive crowd lately, so I started to think that their ATA drives are making tape obsolete. And when the information life-cycle management forces added their whispers about the improved performance and low cost of archiving data to fixed disks, I became a fervent convert to the notion that tape is all but dead. |
| The Data Storage Story |
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| In just four years companies will manage 10 times more data than they do today. |
| Need for Automated Tape Library Back-up Data Storage Grows as Computer Systems Become Larger, More Complex, More Vulnerable |
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| During the summer of 2000, a student working on a PC out of a small apartment in the Philippines set loose the “I Love You” computer virus. It infected an estimated 45 million computers around the world. The virus forced thousands of businesses to shut down their computer systems for hours, even days. Information Technology specialists worked for weeks at thousands of companies to clear the remnants of the virus from their computer systems. Companies spent an estimated $2.6 billion to flush the bug, correct problems and develop strategies to protect against similar threats in the future. |
| Recertified Cartridges - the Hidden Risks |
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| The concept of recycle/reuse has entered the data storage market under the name of "recertification". Cartridges that are sold as "recertified" have been procured from a source, are sometimes run through a test procedure and sold for less than new, unused cartridges. |
| Buying Used Tape - the Hidden Risks |
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| The concept of used tape has entered the market under the name of "recertified" or “reconditioned”. Cartridges that are sold as used are purchased from end users, sometimes run through a test process and sold for less than new, unused cartridges. Good business decisions for your data center should take precedent over the temptation to buy lower cost used tape. |
| Data Storage Technology Assessment – 2002 Projections through 2010 |
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This report, a follow-on document to "Data Storage Technology Assessment," August 2000, consists of two parts.
Part I makes the readers aware of the fact that, in the last decade, the development of data stroage technology has been heavily influenced by the sheer size of the consumer electronic entertainment and information products market. The technology trends described have also been leveraged by important technical and market developments that have taken place in the last two years.
Part II describes the technology, current product capabilities, performance and near-term expansion projections through the year 2010 for all major data storage equipment. |
| Tape Backup 1.01: Tips from the TTC |
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| Designing a backup system that meets your company's requirements can be a challenge and involves an analysis of what technology to use, how often to back up and where to store the data once it's backed up. |
| Media Stability and Life Expectancies of Magnetic Tape for Use with IBM 3590 and Digital Linear Tape Systems |
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| This study determines the relative environmental stabilities of ten different tapes for use with IBM 3590 and Quantum SDLT tape drives with a view of archival storage. |
| The History of Data Storage Tape Formats |
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| Official website for information on AIT tape formats. |
