10 Nov
2008
10 Nov
'08
6:28 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
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).
Antonio