IBM's latest advance in high-level data storage shows Tucson is still an important center of innovation after more than 40 years.
David Wichner More than 40 years after arriving in Tucson, computing giant IBM is still churning out innovations in data-storage technology from its labs at the University of Arizona Science and Technology Park.
But its timely selling point involves an inherent ability of removable tape media: to disconnect data from the internet and private networks vulnerable to online attacks. With data breaches and ransomware attacks now a constant threat, IBM says it’s seeing its big-data customers increasingly turn to tape for data resilience.
LTO tape is arguably the lowest-cost, simplest practice to recover from ransomware attacks, said Phil Goodwin, research vice president at the IT research firm IDC. Tech park crucibleLike most of IBM’s data storage systems developed over the past four decades, the Diamondback was developed at the company’s multi-building campus at the UA Tech Park on South Rita Road.
Today, its storage development labs are still going strong, with about 1,000 workers spread across more than 600,000 square feet in four buildings. With a constant hum of clicks and whirs, a robotic shuttle moves back and forth inside the Diamondback cabinet, plucking and mounting barcoded tape cartridges according to a preset program.
A nearby building houses labs that subject the IBM hardware to extremes of temperatures and other environmental challenges, Sanchez noted. “Where like right now in our lab, we’re not just talking about petabytes. We’re talking about how to serve exabytes , as well as zettabytes .”
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