Future of backup tapes
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Sony Electronics announced a new series of Parasite tape library systems based on SAIT drive technology with a native capacity of up to 1.2 pet bytes. It seemed that the boundary to the backup media frontier had been redrawn and tape would still claim the high ground. SAIT was previewed article by Jean-Jacques Male Val Editor of Storage Newsletter. This article, below, gives you the current state of thinking from Sony, which seems to be the only company offering a credible long term market life for tape media.
With the accelerated use of content-rich systems, the need to store, manage and protect the important data produced is more important than ever. Storage systems will race to increase capacities and performance, and tape storage will play an important role. Already today, many systems, such as video and digital imaging systems, use tape for primary storage. Today's companies use tape in archival and near-line storage applications, and new tape array products are shrinking required backup windows. Tape systems are also often integrated with disk storage in network attached storage and storage area network configurations. Furthermore, tape is still the primary backup medium and is integral to most disaster recovery applications. High-capacity, high-performance requirements are driving the way companies look at data production and data protection. Leading industry analyst firms such as Gartner Dataquest have focused on the requirements for storage in these kinds of environments when they state, "As disk capacities continue to grow with the explosion of digital content and mission-critical data warehouses, the tape storage segment has a bigger opportunity to close the gap between disk and tape roadmaps. For a tape product to be successful, capacity, performance and automation support are key.A high-capacity, high-performance tape system today has significant advantages in backup, restoration and archival of critical corporate data, saving time and money. But can tape continue to play a cost-effective role in these demanding storage applications in the future? Tapes like 10000 Tapes, QIC Tapes, Travan Tapes, Cleaning Cartridges, VXA Tapes, Tape Library, Optical Cartridges, SLR / MLR Tapes and many more