Tape had always been the preferred medium for datacenter archive, even though it could be difficult to deal with and was a medium that (because it literally touched the recording head) degraded every time you recorded or read the tape. Plenty of enterprise information is archived on tape, but that is about to change. We all know that information is growing exponentially and now archiving is struggling to keep up. With the expectation of 44 zettabytes of data being created by 2020 and archive data being the fastest part of this growth, tape vendors should be in a great position. But, tape leaders like Oracle and IBM might have more to fear from this huge increase in data than they have to gain. And it may come from the most unlikely place of all: optical. We recently looked at Sony Optical Archive Inc. and how their entrance into enterprise archiving could give tape–and hard drives for that matter–a real run for the money. You can download our paper here.

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