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Fed up with tape, hospital moves to storage jukebox

Filed in archive Backup , Nearline on April 5, 2006

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Fed up with tape, hospital moves to storage jukebox - Computerworld:


I don't know that I'm fed up with tape (mostly because I don't run the backups at my day job, that's left for some other sucker), but I do rather dislike it. It strikes me as very inelegant, almost archaic, a hangover from the bad old days when tape was all there was.


Every time I look seriously at backup systems, I end up thinking "there has to be a better way!", but I'm yet to find it - at least, not within my budgetary constraints.


" When Cabell Huntington Hospital installed a new image and records archiving system late last year, it was given a choice of sticking with its optical disk jukebox and its spinning disk arrays or going back to magnetic tape.



The 300-bed hospital in Huntington, W.Va., chose to stay with its unconventional optical disk format because, as its CIO said, the system saves money and has so far offered great reliability. "


At least some folk are managing to get away from it. If I had to deal with backups, I'd probably Envy them...



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