Tape is not dead, vows HP's storage sales chief

http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/06/hps_storage_sales_chief_the_opportunist_a...

You wonder how an opportunist looks like? Well, look no further... we found one perfect example for you... Here's a short video of HP's VP of Americas for servers and storage sales, Mark Gonzalez... it's self-explanatory... no, I promise ;-)
Tape is not dead "The reality is that we live in a very litigious environment. A lot in which there are a lot of government regulations. And I for one, got to tell you, I love the government. I love Congress. Sarbanes and Oxley, wonderful people. HIPAA was a god send. Think about this: keep data on somebody for the rest of their life. Is that beautiful or what? I heard the other day that people want to protect our food source and they though they should track every chicken that we slaughter. I, for one, vote for that. We will build more storage!"

Tape is low cost and low power... virtual tape is *not*! "There is no lower cost way to store data than tape. Regular tape uses 99% less power than virtual [drive based] tape...And this data can be kept for very long time... With tape you can have actually a useful life of 30 years... We do over 2,5 million passes over the same media and in fact guarantee the integrity of that media"

Everything is going to blade And the reason is very simple. Today HP has about 42% share of the blade market from a server perspective. We are on our way to 50%. Once you have that kind of market share... it's easy to understand why you want to take everything to blade... we have storage blades and now we are announcing tape blades".
http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/06/hps_storage_sales_chief_the_opportunist_a...

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• uberpulse
• tape
• storage

[fserranoag]

The world is a business, what would you expect from a corporation?

Gonzalez is not an opportunist he is just in charged of some great technology thats being used by stupid people the wrong way. Storage will keep growing hopefully in a more useful way than storing dead chicken data. Teach the young so they can use it better than the goverment expamples Mr. Gonzalez shows.

[dcs0582]

In case you are unfamiliar with Earth culture, the opening comments about SOx and chickens employ a mechanism known as "humor".

As to why HP holds the greatest market share, it's due to superior products and technology. Lord knows, it's not their marketing. If HP sold sushi, they would unfortunately market it as "cold, dead fish".

Keeping archived data on spinning disk is expensive in many respects. It's stupid not to spool it off to less expensive tape.

[fatalnuke]

I can't imagine this somehow...