http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2013/12/29/
a_year_of_tape_tittle_tattle/
Year in Review Tape has pretty much been rescued over the past year
by revelations that both Google and Amazon were using tape libraries
for data archiving purposes. If these glamorous, bleeding edge online
cloud service provider firms used boring old legacy tape then, hey,
the stuff must still really be useful.
It was a mixed picture though. Tape for archive use strengthened
while tape use for backup declined some more.....
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