On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> Yesterday our director said that he doesn't intend to ever upgrade
> existing STK L700 because eventually we'll go tapeless as that is what
> the industry is doing.   The idea being we'd have our disk backup
> devices here (e.g. Data Domain) and transfer to offsite storage to
> another disk device so as to eliminate the need for ever transporting
> tapes.
>
> It made me wonder if anyone was actually doing the above already or was
> planning to do so?
>

That seems to be the way people are 'thinking' but the bottom line is disk 
still is not cheaper than LTO-3 tape and there are a lot of advantages to 
tape; however, convicing management of this is an uphill battle.

Justin.
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