Byte and Switch: How long will tape will live on? Ten years? Fifty years?
Brown: Ha! Well, it would silly to project out 50 years. Any technology that's on the drawing board today would be impossible to commercialize in the next five years.
Byte and Switch: What kinds of technologies?
Byte and Switch: Holographic storage, optical memory, bacteria memory. [Ed. note: "Hey, Frank, did you put the plankton in the backup unit yet?"] It's things that have the cost, the removability, and reliability characteristics of tape. The truth is those ideas have been around for a long time. But commercializing them -- showing that they'd have hundreds of thousands of hours between failures, getting them ready for an HP or an IBM to take and put in their systems -- they're nowhere near that.
Byte and Switch: You don't think magnetic disk is there?
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