Migrating from one generation to another generation of tape technology may seem like a difficult task. In practice, though, tape migration is relatively straightforward and provides tremendous ROI thanks to each generation’s increase in performance and capacity.
In this Whiteboard Video, Alan Hale, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), joins George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland, to discuss the advantages of tape migration. NOAA is responsible for environmental awareness data to help protect life and property. NOAA captures the majority of their data from satellite images, about 6TBs per day, so managing capacity is critical in their environment. In this Whiteboard session, Alan walks us through their process of migrating to LTO8 and the advantages they enjoy as a result of that migration.
George Crump is the Chief Marketing Officer at VergeIO, the leader in Ultraconverged Infrastructure. Prior to VergeIO he was Chief Product Strategist at StorONE. Before assuming roles with innovative technology vendors, George spent almost 14 years as the founder and lead analyst at Storage Switzerland. In his spare time, he continues to write blogs on Storage Switzerland to educate IT professionals on all aspects of data center storage. He is the primary contributor to Storage Switzerland and is a heavily sought-after public speaker. With over 30 years of experience designing storage solutions for data centers across the US, he has seen the birth of such technologies as RAID, NAS, SAN, Virtualization, Cloud, and Enterprise Flash. Before founding Storage Switzerland, he was CTO at one of the nation's largest storage integrators, where he was in charge of technology testing, integration, and product selection.
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