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Its new half-high drive fits the DDS form factor.. Surprise!
Benchmark Tape System's motto is "DLT for the rest of us." It might as well be "DLT for the DDS of us," as the product is clearly meant to displace-and replace-- DDS. Now that major manufacturers are not going forward with a DDS-5, this should be good news for DDS's primary market, networked servers in small-to medium-size business and individual high performance workstations with a backup speed of over 20GB. Benchmark is also pushing the product's autoloader to a large portion of this market that has not been using backup products because autoloaders have been nonexistent or unreliable.
Benchmark And DDS
Gartner Dataquest chief analyst Fara Yale said, "The basis for any tape technology to successfully penetrate the DDS space requires three key components: price, equal or greater capacity/performance, and form factor. Any competitor to provide all of these in one offering will start to make the case for DDS market transition."
In response, Steven Berens,...