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Worldwide Revenue Market Share, 2000
Source: Dataquest, Preliminary March 2001
Figure 1-7 The DLTtape System Is the Overwhelming Choice
among high-performance tape systems.
happier "out of the box" experience for users. There is also a trend
toward providing more user-friendly graphical displays that show
the user exactly what's going on with backup, where the process
stands at the moment, and what and where a hangup is occurring.
Application Diversity
Over time, the range of applications for tape is diversifying, and
that trend will probably continue. Tape, especially the DLTtape
system, is not just about backup anymore. Tape applications also
include archiving, disaster recovery, hierarchical storage manage-
ment, real-time backup, distribution (especially distribution of
video programs and graphics files), near on-line storage, and a host
of others. As these applications mature and become better defined,
you may see the emergence of different products to fit different sets
1.12 THE EVOLVING TAPE STORAGE MARKET
Sony 11
%
Exabyte 11
%
Quantum 78
%