A Better Way To Store Data

A case against tape backup - or more of a case for CDC on HDD ;)

FROM FORBES.COM

"A Better Way To Store Data"

Tape storage has been around for decades and is showing its age. Tape stretches, breaks, unravels, and all of it needs to be loaded by hand. But it's also cheap, and the cost of migrating it to magnetic storage has been prohibitive in the past. So what's changed?

Forbes caught up with Bill Andrews, president and chief executive of ExaGrid, to talk about deduplication of data and why many companies are now swapping tape for low-cost disk drives.


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