Re:Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
by a_imho on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @05:58AM
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There are some interesting regulations in finance, I know at least one bank that keeps offline backups on tapes, but wonder how often do they test it.
My experience with them tells me, they are not the most tech savvy bunch. If they ever need to use backups with the software they were provided decades ago / by modern fast failing agile company (according to taste), even if they can get the source it will be very hard to compile and run them. Reproducible builds is not exactly a solved problem.
Re:Intel's roadmap for Optane SSDs with 1,000x performance
by ashitlerferad on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @11:58PM
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> Reproducible builds is not exactly a solved problem.
Indeed, but we are getting there (over 90% of packages from Debian stretch amd64 and 99.9% of OpenWRT packages):
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/ https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/openwrt/
As a medium, for offline, offsite it still reigns king. Density, reliably, and durability remain high, vs platter based drives or SSD.
I know of at least two companies that keep tape going for compliance reasons. At the end of each year, they do a pretty large archival snapshot, and send it off to storage. It will remain there till some lawyer asks for it, and will most likely end up copied by a third party for the sake of integrity.
For one of them, the archive tapes are becoming a concern, the media is fine, but finding hardware is going to become a problem.