Oracle has shipped more enterprise tape drives than any other vendor in the first half of calendar year 2011, according to IDC’s Worldwide Tape QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle also shipped the most tape libraries, over 1,000 slots, and held over 70 percent market share for LTO libraries over 1,000 slots, according to QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive is the world's fastest tape drive, also delivering a 5TB native capacity -- the world's highest -- with a transfer rate of up to 252 MB/second.
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"It’s seen major new and maturing products and technologies, big-time venture capital funding, and catch-up efforts by major storage vendors shoehorning fast SSD into array architectures designed for much slower disks ..."
The pundits are again citing the up coming year as the breakout year for SSD; unfortunately that line has been used for the last 10 years. There is no doubt that the pricing for SSD is coming down but enough to justify 100% SSD shops? I have doubts that SSD will mean the
"End of High-End HDD Storage", just like HDD has never completely replaced tape.
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The 2011 INSIC Magnetic Tape Applications & Systems Roadmap, released on November 30, 2011, is available for download.
The new Applications & Systems Roadmap is the culmination of a yearlong effort, led by INSIC’s Barry Schechtman (Executive Director Emeritus and Technical Director for INSIC’s TAPE Research Program) and which involved the participation of representatives of Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Imation, Oracle, Quantum, Spectra Logic and Symantec, as well as key inputs from industry analysts and applications experts in various fields.
The final report is balanced and credible, and delivers an optimistic outlook for tape storage going forward. However, INSIC also believe that this optimistic outlook will be fulfilled only if the tape storage industry continues to invest in the research and advanced development necessary to provide the future technologies that are needed.
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"Companies may want to skip using a tiered storage architecture and move directly to an all-SSD (solid state drive) architecture, according to a new report from Forrester Research. In the report, Forrester contends that while enterprise-class SSDs are vastly more expensive than hard disk drives, deduplication can reduce capacity requirements, making flash a cost-effective, better-performing alternative ..."
While tape is not mentioned specifically in the article the 30,000 foot view of data storage, protection and access has to include all three. The problem with "Skip Data Tiering, Go Directly to All-SSD Storage" is the assumption of two things. Prices for disk won't fall and the deduplication that is mentioned is not applicable to traditional disk and tape. Both are incorrect.
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