There have been some talks about the demise of tapes, but the love affair of Indian enterprises with tapes shows no signs of abating. Rather, it looks that Indian CIOs are increasingly opting for tapes as their preferred medium for near-line storage. The endorsement of tapes, as the backup media for Indian enterprises, is confirmed by the recently released IDC Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) Branded Tape Drive 2004-2008 Semiannual Forecast Update. The overall market for branded single tape drives in Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) is expected to increase to $222 mn by 2008, a CAGR of 1.3% during 2003-08. At the first glance, this growth figure seems fairly low, but it, in fact, reflects a decline in the entry-level segment of the tape drive storage market, and a considerable price pressure in the midrange and enterprise segments. In addition, despite continuing supremacy of tapes, the increasing use of disk-based systems for backup and recovery is also another contributing factor to this low growth figure.
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