Tape automation emerged first in the mainframe environment as a solution to the massive amount of tape handling required for batch systems. Large silos stored thousands of tape cartridges, and these systems carried price tags of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. With the emergence of network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) solutions, low cost tape automation will play an increasingly important role. The ability to cost effectively backup a NAS subsystem requires a tape automation subsystem that can either be integrated with the NAS subsystem itself or be directly network attached as another subsystem. SAN implementations are now moving from large organizations into medium sized organizations that will require affordable tape automation solutions. This also requires the capability to connect an autoloader through a fibre channel bridge and eventually to have a native fibre channel controller in the autoloader itself.
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