Cloud Computing: IBM Eyes Object Storage on Tape
April 10, 2015
Grazed from EnterpriseTech. Author: George Leopold.
Despite a steady stream of storage technology advances, IBM scientists insist there is still plenty of life left in left in tape storage along with new cloud applications like object storage. IBM Research this week claimed a new storage density record of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch on inexpensive particulate magnetic tape. The areal recording density is said to be equivalent to a 220-terabyte tape cartridge, the researcher said.
The tape storage milestone is the latest in a series recorded by IBM Research and industrial partner FujiFilm Corp. of Japan. They demonstrated the record tape storage density as part of a project with Swiss-based ETH Zurich, which uses IBM tape storage technology for central data backup…
As solid-state storage devices and “data aware” cloud infrastructure begin to dominate the storage landscape, IBM maintains that the 50-year-or-so-old tape storage remains relevant, and not just for backing up data or archival storage. Researchers insist it also provided another storage option for big data and cloud computing applications…
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