Better Backup Strategies
But for all the brave talk, few IT organizations have truly eliminated tape from their infrastructure, as IT and systems managers will sheepishly admit. Tape is cheap, it more or less works, and everyone is used to it. Some say there will always be a place for tape in long-term archiving. A 2.5-inch Linear Tape Open (LTO) cartridge that holds 600GB is still one of the more space-efficient archive media.
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