Tag Archives: Tape

What’s wrong with tape?

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Ray

Was on a conference call today with Oracle’s marketing discussing their tape business.  Fred Moore (from Horison Information Systems) was on the call and mentioned something which surprised me.  What’s missing in open and distributed systems was some standalone mechanism … Continue reading →

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7 grand challenges for the next storage century

Posted on November 19, 2009 by Ray

I saw a recent IEEE Spectrum article on engineering’s grand challenges for the next century and thought something similar should be done for data storage. So this is a start: Replace magnetic storage – most predictions show that magnetic disk … Continue reading →

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Yottabytes by 2015!?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Ray

Well, maybe an Exabyte a day was way too small for 2009. NSA is now reporting that they may be storing yottabytes (YB, 10**24) of data by 2015 somewhere in Utah. Later reports have NSA reducing this down to something … 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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Tape v Disk v SSD v RAM

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Ray

There was a time not long ago when the title of this post wouldn’t have included SSD. But, with the history of the last couple of years, SSD has earned its right to be included. A couple of years back … Continue reading →

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