10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
7:32 a.m.
At 2:28 PM +0000 11/10/08, Antonio Carlini wrote:
Liam Proven wrote:
<raises hand>
We have rows of tape libraries in our datacenter and go through
thousands of tapes each week. There are plenty of reasons tapes are
still around, and they won't be gone anytime in the foreseeable
future. At the same time new technologies are replacing some uses
for tapes.
Zane
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Tapes are history.
It would seem not. We have at least one tape library in the office.
It's about the size of a half-height (UK) fridge. Maybe a little deeper.
We use it for testing and we do that because we have customers who need
that functionality. OK, it's an expensive bit of kit and it sits on
Fiber Channel
(so by definition that first statement is true:-)). You probably won't
see
one in a small office. But there must be people with datacentres full
of them (or, more likely their bigger, taller cousins).