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Tape: On a roll
Not for the first time, rumours of 'the death of tape' have been greatly exaggerated, suggests Mark O'Malley, strategic marketing manager, Quantum
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Coming back around
In the second part of our special feature on tape, Warren Peel, MD of Trams, digs a little deeper into the business scenarios that make tape an attractive option, and summarises some of the technologies on offer
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The virtual reality of big data
The true value of Big Data comes when it is transformed into Big Intelligence, argues Michiel von der Crone, Field Advisory Services Team Director, EMEA, CommVault
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On good authority
Providing key back office transactional processes shared by two public sector bodies in England, Xentrall has been able to free up 120TB of space, increase backup throughput and still save over £100k in expanded storage costs
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The future is still bright
Orange Business Services chose NetApp storage infrastructure as the basis for its move into cloud services provision
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StoragePro XL
Deploying SSDs across your enterprise storage infrastructure is increasingly simple to do - but what about monitoring all those devices, and managing firmware updates?
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Comment
Welcome to the first Storage magazine e-newsletter of 2014 - our New Year's resolution is to continue to grow our readership after a phenomenally successful first year! This issue includes a special focus on the technology that wouldn't die: tape. Mark O'Malley of Quantum addresses many of the common misconceptions about this much-maligned and frankly misunderstood medium. His belief is that tape will remain at the heart of storage infrastructures, and indeed that the growth of cloud-based storage will increase tape use overall.
Elsewhere Trams' Warren Peel talks about the business/economic appeal of tape, saying: "Almost all large storage facilities use tape as a tiered layer within their ecosystems; disk is simply too expensive to buy and maintain, too heavy, too hot and in this day and age of rising energy costs, too expensive to run. When we consider that typically over 80% of the data we store is rarely or never accessed, it makes sense to ask why we would want to store that data on a medium that is using up energy, when we can store it on tape where the energy footprint is a fraction of the disk equivalent."
Let us know if you agree, we’d love to hear your views for future issues.
David Tyler,
Editor
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