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Article: Tape libraries central to intelligent tape: tape proves its value in data center, disaster recovery.(Storage Management)
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- Computer Technology Review
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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Storage vendors are pushing to add more and more intelligence to their storage devices and components. Infrastructure, arrays, software-based management, libraries--developers are working to provide new levels of efficiency, automation and management capabilities at hardware and software levels.
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Tape is no exception. Tape storage vendors are constantly increasing tape speed and capacity, and are also placing increasing amounts of intelligence and automation into Fibre Channel tape libraries. But is this intelligence being used as well as it could be?
Tape benefits and suffers from the idea that it only does backup and ...