Dealing with Security - Is Tape Storage Obscure?

Information Week recently published a very interesting article that talked about protecting your very large data archives. The author, George Crump, suggests using tape to back up your very large files at a highly reduced rate to that of disk storage?

After all these years of converting to disk and now the cloud, is tape storage a good idea?

I say, “sure, why not?”

Why not protect yourself and your files at a fraction of the cost? It is important that in today’s society we mind our actions and spending due to the economy. Granted, tape is a bit obscure but it’s still usable. Another benefit of backing up your documents with tape is that you will be the only one with access- no one could hack into your computer and steal the information. It will be locked away in a safe or somewhere no one has access to it. Physically stealing seems a lot more difficult than online hacking these days. Until a better more efficient and cost effective way of backing up your data is figured out- bomb’s away.

To read the original article please see the May 14, 2012 edition.

Stay Tuned!