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Putting to rest many of the claims that tape has passed its prime, this Clipper Note from The Clipper Group confirms that tape can be an important cost-saving storage technology for long-term archiving of big files in a tiered storage architecture.  A couple of highlights:

• For long-term archiving of digital data, the average disk-based solution costs 15 times the average tape-based solution. 
• The cost of energy alone for the average disk-based solution exceeds the entire TCO for the average tape-based solution.

Vendor:

Oracle Corporation

Posted:

Feb 8, 2021

Published:

Jun 7, 2011

Format:

PDF

Type:

White Paper