By Greg Schulz

Depending on whom you talk to or ask, you will get different views and opinions, some of them stronger than others on if magnetic tape is dead or alive as a data storage medium. However an aspect of tape that is alive are the discussions by those for, against or that simply see it as one of many data storage mediums and technologies whose role is changing.

Here is a link to an a ongoing discussion over in one of the LinkedIn group forums (Backup & Recovery Professionals) titled About Tape and disk drives.

Rest assured, there is plenty of FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt) and hype on both sides of the tape is dead (or alive) arguments, not very different from the disk is dead vs. SSD or cloud arguments. After all, not everything is the same in data centres, clouds and information factories.

For what it …