Has Tape Backup Suffered the Final Death?

By Melody Smith|December 28th, 2010|News, semantic, storage|Comments Off

December 28, 2010 – The emergence of faster and denser LTO-5 tape could spark an increase in that exact debate, even with the general consensus being that LTO-5 won’t stop the ongoing trend toward disk backup and data deduplication technology.

We found this news on SearchDataBackup.com in their article, “LTO-5 tape can’t stop backup hardware trend toward disk.” More scalable disk-based hardware product updates continue to hit the market, typically with improved integration of backup software and support for Symantec Corp.’s OpenStorage Technology (OST) API. Reliance on the virtual tape library (VTL) interface continues.

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Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.

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Has Tape Backup Suffered the Final Death?