Conference on Tape Storage Discards the Myths

The conference theme, Into Tomorrow with Tape Storage, was an affirmation that tape technology persists as a dynamic, useful IT resource for large and small data centers alike. Jason Hick at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories joined Sims to point out that tape archives are important to efficient science. LBL made use of Tape Environment Analysis (a service that Fujifilm and Crossroads offers), which verifies readability of the entire archive and reports quarterly on operational performance. The analysis identified error-producing drives and pointed to under-utilized drives in the lab’s tape libraries. The team re-balanced the flow of data for greater efficiencies and fewer errors. More>