Yeah, tape is alive and kicking for business use. Automated tape libraries add a few grand to the total, but you get the added benefit of not having to change

Yeah, tape is alive and kicking for business use. Automated tape libraries add a few grand to the total, but you get the added benefit of not having to change tapes daily. My only concern is that tape speeds are stagnating around a terabyte per hour, while you can somewhat parallelize jobs with multi-drive libraries, it increases cost and complexity significantly.