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Article: Intelligent Tape Management Streamlines Manual and Automated Tape Environments.(Columbia/HCA case study)(Company Operations)
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- Enterprise Systems Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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Information technology professionals are working toward the concept of the paperless data center, but the vision of a tapeless data center is so far from reality that even futurists have difficulty in imagining what a data center without tape would look like. In fact, tape storage has increased in popularity. And while tape and tape resources represent a significant and growing investment, tape continues to be one of the most under-utilized resources in the data center.
Nevertheless, while eliminating tape is not an option for most companies, many data centers are committed to maximizing their return on their investment in tape resources. The most progressive data ...