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Re: Will Hard Drives Edge Out Tape Drives?

2003-05-22 20:51:32
Subject: Re: Will Hard Drives Edge Out Tape Drives?
From: DFrance <DFrance-TSM AT ATT DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 10:42:43 -0700
Yep... I recently visited a customer who's planning to use dark-fibre link to 
"Level-3" offsite storage vendor;  primary pools stay local ('cuz they're still 
paranoid about the whole prospect), but copy pools will go to the offsite 
"vault", all disk-to-disk (in this case, using TSM server-2-server virt. 
volumes for copy-pool data & DBbackups).

And, this is getting some play amongst customers wanting to transport the disks 
offsite, as well --- abit riskier, considering what happens when you drop a 
disk(?).


Don France
Technical Architect -- Tivoli Certified Consultant
Tivoli Storage Manager, WinNT/2K, AIX/Unix, OS/390
San Jose, Ca
(408) 257-3037
mailto:don_france AT ayett DOT net (change aye to a for replies)

Professional Association of Contract Employees 
(P.A.C.E. -- www.pacepros.com)



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From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU]On Behalf Of
Reiss David IT751 (ext-CDI)
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 12:38 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Will Hard Drives Edge Out Tape Drives?


Anybody doing anything like this with TSM:

http://www.tomshardware.com/newsletter/vol3/16/70tb.html

Just a thought... but 70 TB for $435,000 on disk sounds interesting.  Just
get some small tape libraries for making offsite copy pools.  Of course, you
would be on the bleeding edge of tech maybe.

David N. Reiss
TSM Support Engineer
david.reiss AT siemens DOT com
407-736-3912

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