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Date: Jan 21, 2009
Topic: Brocade Product Update
Type: Sun Partner Training
Venue: Sun Thailand Office, Bangkok

Date: Jan 29, 2009
Topic: Sun Storage 7000 Launch
Type: Product Launch
Venue: Intercontinental Hotel, Bangkok

Date: Jan 30, 2009
Topic: Sun Storage 7000 Workshop Training
Type: Sun Partner Training
Venue: Sun Thailand Office, Bangkok

I've got many requests from business partners to helping them answer this kind of question.
For me, it's a simple answer but for someone whose doesn't have much experience with tape.
It will be hard for them to explain.

The main reason is still a "Total Cost of Ownership - TCO".

Based on my translate article "D2D is Not Enough" to Thai language.
Here are the list of tape technology advantages over disk and reason why it's still useful in the storage solution as for the long term backup and archival data protection.

Cost, Raw $$/GB, the main reason
Tape cost is about 1/15 to 1/20 of disk cost

Tape $.75-$3.5/GB
Enterprise disk: FC, SCSI, FICON, ESCON; $50-$70/GB
Mid-range disk: FC, SCSI; $20-$35/GB
Low cost disk: SATA; $5-$15/GB

Other hidden expansion cost:
For tape, just add tape cartridges.
For disk, not just only hard drives, the array cost and more physical disk for RAID are the hidden cost.

Other Tape technology advantages
- Removability
- Environmental (power consumption)
- Archival life
- Non-FAT data structure, no virus attack on tape
- Security
- WORM support

This blog will be the tool to share my experiences and expertises on both technical and non-technical stories to the world.
I hope some part from my experience will able to help someone to solve the technical or non-technical issue that they're facing. I'll try to store good things in my blog as much as I can.


Before begin a first content, let's me brief something about me first.
My current roles in Sun Microsystem is Solution Architect in Storage Practice

Before joining Sun, I used to work as a technical, solution architect and consultant as following roles:

Internet Engineer/Editor

Web/Internet Programming

Lotus Domino Database Application Programming

Management Information Systems

IT Specialist, IBM RS/6000 and IBM pSeries

IT Specialist/IT Architect, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager

Centralized Backup and Recovery Solution Specialist/Architect/Consultant

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Consultant

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Shared photographs of Sun events, my nice trips and my important events

IT gadgets and my new cool stuff

IT Tips and Trick on OS, Software and others

Home, gardening and other hobbies

Nice quotes/articles

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