Tape Bashing!

Whilst searching our office ‘Dog Food’ MatrixStore cluster today I came across the rather silly tape bashing images below. When we first started out (back in the day) we used to do an awful lot of tape bashing (it was the fashionable thing to do back in 2003/4!) but find ourselves doing less these days as we are being approached by organisations who want to keep a significant portion of their content alive and are thus looking for a disk based solution.

Green Storage

Don't Panic

Where is that runner?

Tape Cuts

I will not re-open the whole tape vs disk debate here, there are older, wiser and less biased heads out there in the blogosphere (storagemojo.com, drunkendata.com etc) who have written reams on the pros and cons of both technologies.
Cheers from sunny south Wales and have a nice weekend…