Randy Kearns Quotations

I worked at IBM a long time, and I think it was 1974 that I was working in their general practice division in Colorado. The head of the general practice division said to us in an all-hands meeting there that IBM believes that tape is dead and (that) we should be getting out of tape.

There's going to be a big launch that we're going to have on April 12.

It's going to be the archives and it's going to be the generational copies that they never get back.

It's going to be the archives, and it's going to be the generational copies that they never get back.

Tape automation is really going to be the main thing, in that you're going to see big libraries, the robotics in them to handle tapes, so we get the human element out as much as possible.

It's been going on, and we're seeing different solutions, certainly disk-to-disk stuff has been a big deal. But now we're starting to see some continuous backup products out on the market...things where we just keep track of changes and keep multiple generational backups--being able to establish a recovery time objective.