Woo Hoo! More tape storage. Yeah!!
Ok guys, please allow me to clarify a few important points so you understand what this is about:
1/ Companies update products all the time with incremental improvements. This is typical of such updates
2/ BIG data has nothing to do with storage. BIG data is analytics, not storage. If a PR person wants to improve clicks, they drop in key buzz words. Like Big Data.
3/ Tape storage is used for backup and recovery. With the low cost of Amazon and Azure storage, and the ability to automatically "set it and forget it" a business can pay for what they use, as they use it. And they can select multiple storage locations for multi-level redundancy. Cheaper, faster, more reliable, safer. Thus tape storage companies such as Overland are quickly dying on the vine.
Glassware was announced ready in Feb 2014. 20,000 Overland partners. Microsoft has 500,00, VMware had 100,000 partners. Where are the client references?