Yesterday, 21th April 2009, there was a press release from the LTO Consortium describing survey results showing that 66 percent of storage environments utilize a tiered storage infrastructure of disk and tape to address their storage requirements for performance, data retention compliance, disaster recovery and total cost of ownership.

This is consistent with the survey results that were described in the 12th March 2008 press release that strongly suggested that storage customers that use a disk-only infrastructure were looking at tape storage technology as part of a tiered storage infrastructure to support backup and archiving.

More and more of you are coming to the realization that disk-only is a incomplete storage tiering strategy.

Share this news with your peers and management as those that believe disk is sufficient for all storage strategies and tiers have not kept up with the news and do not seem to understand the technological, economical, or ecological benefits of tape.