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The Truth About Tape - Nine Myths to Reconsider

PublisherClipper Group
Format425.7KB PDFDate added21 Feb 2007
Topics Removable Storage, Storage Management, Tape Drives - Libraries
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It has been more than 55 years since the first commercially available tape drive was marketed to data centers. Tape drives today do not look at all like those first drives. Engineering developments through out the years have brought faster, more reliable, and higher capacity media and drives and the development shows no sign of abating. Tape's role in addressing compliance with WORM, data retention with archive, data security with encryption, data protection with safely-removable cartridges and TCO with low acquisition and operation costs is strategic in the storage hierarchy.

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