Blocks and Files Disruptive or enhancing innovation? Kodak’s descent into Chapter 11 hell is a tolling bell for all successful storage suppliers facing innovative technology from competitors. King Canute didn’t reinvent himself: can you?
Let’s look at the tape market. Tape devices were backup devices; they were the target storage devices for data coming from backup software. Tape device vendors pretty much defined themselves as backup software storage devices and were hardware-centric.
Along comes disk to disk backup, cutting lengthening backup windows to more acceptable periods, and along came deduplication, cutting the cost/GB of storing backup data on disk, and wham!
