* People with too much storage and too muchtime on their hands
Virtual Tape Library vendor Sepaton has been busy this holiday season by posting a few YouTube videos predicting the demise of tape. The first is called Max Baxter: Data Never Dies. Maybe a paintball court is a good use of a data center floor emptied of its tape libraries.
The second video in which the IT guy is killed by an ejecting backup cartridge can be viewed here..
Others, mostly end-users with too much time on their hands, have also posted ‘tape’ videos to YouTube:
Even funnier than these videos are some that John Cleese did for Compaq in the 1980s that aren’t really related to storage, but to the origins of the networking industry. Here they are:
Computer History/Humor with John Cleese
I Wouldn’t Watch This Commercial
And, finally, the funniest video of all – about Compaq again, of course, and featuring CEO Rod Canion, Doug Johns, Michael Swavely and Gary Stimac (the last two formerly of bladeserver manufacturer RLX).
