Why EMC’s Data Domain Archiver Is Not Really a Threat to Tape
Tape storage has been under fire from disk-based systems for some time but one area that has been practically impregnable for tape is archival storage. That’s because it’s hard to justify the cost of disk storage for information that’s rarely accessed by an organization. Disk storage system maker EMC, though, sent a shot across the bow of the good ship tape archives recently with its announcement of its new Data Domain Archiver.
