Tape Storage in the Age of Clouds

The latest death rumor was that faster, more efficient and increasingly capacity-intensive disk solutions had when all is said and done made linear storage obsolete. In the age of cloud computing, in which throughput and responsiveness take precedence over any single device's performance or capability, tape simply could not compete.

Even although cloud-based backup is all the rage, enterprises should be leery of shedding their reliance on in-house tape just but, according to DCIG analyst Jerome M. Wendt. For openers, the cloud is problematic in the best case when it comes to large-scale restoration, what with having to shuttle large amounts of data over the WAN. Cloud providers can as well lose data or immediately go out of business, leaving access in limbo for long periods of time, otherwise permanently. When it comes to compliance, tape has the two things that matter most: reliability and longevity.

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