Fujifilm began on 1 February 2011 delivery of its new backup tapes “Tape Cartridge for StorageTek T10000C” with a storage capacity of 5 terabytes per cartridge, which represents the best performance in the world today (at least 3 times cartridges used today). Aiming the storage market for mainframe computers (mainframes or), Fujifilm is aimed at large companies handling a large amount of data, which include the target of the main dealer of the new cartridges, Oracle.
In addition to this large storage capacity, Fujifilm has also worked on other aspects in order to make its cartridges and sustainable performance: the speed of data transfer is 240 MB / second (50 to 70% faster than cartridges Company currently used by Oracle), and they support over 25,000 full read / write.
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The “cloud” (in French, cloud computing or cloud computing) [1] [2] is currently a strong trend in the computer industry that should emerge as a major architectural choice in 2010. Several countries, led by the United States [3], but also the United Kingdom [4], Japan [5], China [6], Singapore [7] or South Korea [8], therefore very interested about these technologies, either for their own purposes or for market share in this new market. Taiwan is no exception and a series of recent announcements indicate that he would even become a major player in the sector.
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