According to Peter Struik, tape is supremely well-suited to archiving workloads and should gain strong consideration from customers because of its longevity, energy efficiency, and low cost of ownership.
Here, Struik makes a point about Kangaroo's software environment. It is Linux-based and can be accessed via command line, with the intention that no matter what else changes, data stored for many decades will still be available via a very simple interface.
Kangaroo's data mover software can be accessed via NFS, SMB, and S3 with restores in .tar format. 'It is open and hasn't changed in 40 years,' said Struik.
'Cold data is growing but budgets are not,' said Struik. 'Tape should be part of the solution, a hybrid solution. But we haven't made it easy, so people fled to the cloud.'
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