Tag Archives: Tape robotics

Storage strategic inflection points

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Ray

Both EMC and Spectra Logic celebrated their 30 years in business this month and it got me to thinking. Both companies started the same time but one is a ~$14B revenue (’09 projected) behemoth and the other a relatively successful, … Continue reading →

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Protecting the Yottabyte archive

Posted on November 11, 2009 by Ray

In a previous post I discussed what it would take to store 1YB of data in 2015 for the National Security Agency (NSA). Due to length, that post did not discuss many other aspects of the 1YB archive such as … Continue reading →

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Repositioning of tape

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Ray

In my past life, I worked for a dominant tape vendor. Over the years, we had heard a number of times that tape was dead. But it never happened. BTW, it’s also not happening today. Just a couple of weeks … Continue reading →

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