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IT is responsible for storing lots of data for a very long time. But how often do we need to access that data? The majority of this data is very seldom accessed. The old 80/20 rule still applies today. Twenty percent of the data is accessed eighty percent of the time. The other eighty percent of the data is not accessed very often. The need to store data for a long period of time, coupled with the knowledge that much of data will be infrequently (or never) accessed helps to define one of the new roles of tape in the data center. Read on to examine the new roles of tape and disk in data centers today. |
