StorageNewsletter.com has published a story on the results of two studies of TCO in a variety of tape vs. disk scenarios. Both studies found that tape had long-term cost advantages when compared to a scenario that relied on a disk-only solution. The TCO under The Clipper Group scenario found the disk solution for long-term archiving to be more than $67M, contrasted to the $4.5M cost to deploy a tape solution a 12 year scenario. The cost of energy alone for disk at was $4M and only about $18k for tape.
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"Oracle is very committed to the tape business," Jim Cates, vice president of tape development at Oracle, told Enterprise Storage Forum. Writing for internet.com's ESF, Paul Shread also reveals correspondence from Large Tape Users Group (LTUG) executive board president Geoff Cleary who is optimistic about Oracle's plans for its tape product line following a recent LTUG event where Oracle was present.
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In "Sun Storage Augments Mainframe Renaissance", Fred Moore, president of Horison Information Strategies, an information strategies consulting firm, has undertaken to write a historical survey of developments in enterprise computing from the mainframe perspective that discusses what the newest mainframe operating system and storage solutions have in store.
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New Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software (EBS) tiered capacity licenses for Disk Backup Option (DBO) and Virtual Tape Library (VTL) have been instituted. These new licenses streamline the tiering and provide a more targeted set of product offerings, Sun reports. With the announcement of these new licenses, Sun has issued a last order date of April 17, 2009, for Sun StorageTek ESB obsolete DBO and VTL options.
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This helpful compilation of white papers on the role of tape in storage technology comes from Jay Wallace's blog. Wallace provides brief comments characterizing each of the five papers he cites and includes links to all of them.
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