I used to work for StorageTek and I was involved with government/utility/academic workloads where tape was very much still alive until a certain someone decided

I used to work for StorageTek and I was involved with government/utility/academic workloads where tape was very much still alive until a certain someone decided not to manufacture proprietary drives and cartridges anymore :) I think Lto will continue to be an awesome standard for anyone doing PBs or more with multi decade requirements. I am maybe a little surprised to hear that disk hasn't been completely replaced by SSDs yet but I really do think that SSDs will just continue to drop in price.