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Spectra Logic Field Study Report

Taneja Group conducted in-depth telephone interviews with 8 Spectra Logic customers, who comprised varying company sizes and industry verticals. The interviews took place over a 3-month period in early 2012. We were after deeper insight into the leading storage-related challenges these customers faced, and how Spectra Logic’s tape solutions helped them to meet these challenges.

For more information, check out these links:

Spectra Logic - Press Release: http://bit.ly/OtrZyK

Courtesy of Spectra Logic, this Field Study Report can be downloaded free here: http://bit.ly/MQDZhU

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Tape Libraries: Why, When and Where?

A technology publication that shall go unnamed posted the news last year that Amazon Glacier was a “tape-killing cloud” and that it would “devastate the [tape] industry.”

Not exactly. We do believe that smaller tape implementations are going the way of the dodo bird. Cloud backup is quickly replacing small standalone tape drives and autoloaders for daily backup, and as low-end tape equipment ages IT replaces it with cloud for long-term backup retention.

However, tape housed in mid-sized and enterprise scale libraries are growing strongly in several high-value computing and industry segments. Thus the question for IT becomes not “Should I use tape?” but “When should I invest in tape libraries?”