Paradigm Tape
Why IBM tape?
On May 21, 1952, IBM announced the IBM 726 Tape Unit with the IBM 701 Defense Calculator, marking the transition from punched card calculators to electronic computers. Since then, IBM has initiated many significant innovations in linear tape storage and has been an industry leader in setting standards for tape interchange. Tape storage has been so ubiquitous in the mainframe arena that the often-seen icon of an open reel-to-reel tape drive is frequently used as a symbol for the mainframe itself.
In the period from 1952 to today, IBM tape innovations have brought a wave of increased functionality, improved performance, reduced service time, decreased necessary floor space, and simplified tape path. Evolving tape features have included radically different shape and size: square tape cartridges replaced the traditional round reels and the overall footprint of the box was reduced. Along with these physical changes, data storage density and speed have improved
The attributes of tape
Tape continues to figure significantly into IT infrastructures for high-capacity storage backup. Its unique attributes can help users manage their storage requirements and contribute to the ever-present value of tape in the storage hierarchy.
Tape is:
- removable: store it away to help protect it from viruses, sabotage and other corruption
- scalable: add more cartridges, not drives
- portable: move it to another site to avoid destruction in the event the first site suffers threat or damage
- fast: lightning fast — up to 160 megabits per second (with 2:1 compression) for IBM's LTO™ (Linear Tape Open™) Generation 3 systems
- reliable: trust IBM servo technology, read after write verification and advanced error correction systems, to help maintain reliable and dependable storage
...Tape can help you address compliance requirements and WORM applications. Tape has a low total cost of ownership, costing up to 10 times less than disk. Using today's disk to disk to tape methodology, tape is a key element...
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