Still Alive And Well For Storage
Tape was thought to be a dying technology, but they proved them wrong, it is alive and well through the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format. HP, IBM and Quantum, which comprises the LTO Program developed the open standard licensed by most tape backup vendors.
Over 100 million cartridges have been shipped worldwide, since LTO’s beginning in September 2000 equating to over 40 exabytes of compressed cartridge capacity.
There are many benefits of Tape archiving, like write-once, read-many format, and its small so easy to carry and store off-site and electronically inaccessible during storage thereby enhancing security and forbidding revisions, and its affordable - still make it a obligating proposal to the majority of businesses today. Using a combination of disk and tape in a well-managed environment gives companies the best of both worlds. There simply is no other technology around today, or even on the horizon, that can compete with the value of tape.