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Study finds Storage Managers Continue to Recognize the Value of Tape
The Linear Tape-Open Program and its technology
provider companies, HP, IBM Corporation and Quantum Corp, released survey
results showing that storage managers continue to recognize the value of
tape in the storage environment.
A hierarchical strategy for interim
storage continues to be favored by most managers as more than 60 percent
indicated a hybrid storage blend of disk and tape to address performance,
data protection, long-term retention, and cost control. Of those, nearly
half indicated continued usage of tape in the future as a significant part
of the environment. Increasingly, respondents who currently operate in a
disk-only environment are planning to add tape to their storage solution in
the future.
Additionally, the annual survey indicates a trend of
increased use of tape for long-term storage by managers operating in
tape-only and blended tape/disk environments. Managers in tape-only
environments are increasingly planning to use more tape as 37 percent
indicated more use of tape in the future, an upward trend from 2006 when 24
percent cited the same expectation.
Organizations
require storage solutions that not only protect their data but also improve
infrastructure performance and lower costs.
A strategic blend of disk and tape technologies can help organizations
effectively address their data retention requirements while reducing total
cost of ownership.
The survey, conducted in the fourth quarter of 2009,
focused on the views of more than 200 network administrators and mid-level
technology specialists at mid- to large-sized companies throughout the
United States.
Our survey shows that over the
last four years, the percentage of tape-only users indicating they will
eliminate or decrease their usage of tape continues to drop.
LTO Ultrium generation 5 technology has become
available with specifications and new feature details calling for a storage
capacity increase to 3TB (assumes 2:1 compression) - a near doubling of
capacity over the previous generation - and transfer rates of up to 280MB
per second (assumes 2:1 compression). The LTO Ultrium format generation 5
plans include a new partitioning functionality and Linear Tape File System
specification enabling capabilities that can help enhance file control and
space management, addressing the growing needs of marketplace segments such
as Rich Media.
The LTO Ultrium format generation 5 drives are designed
with backwards-compatible read-and-write capability with the
Ultrium format generation 4 cartridges,
and backward read capabilities with generation 3 cartridges, helping to
protect investments and ease implementation.
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