don-o,
many thanks for posting this!
all y’all, ping to this one also!
another company to subpeona....
This is from 2007 from
http://www.cwhonors.org/viewCaseStudy.asp?NominationID=80
Third, CDW has recently saved the IRS millions of dollars by eliminating its use of IBM tapes in favor of Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. These devices, which are no bigger than a tissue box, store the equivalent of over 1,500 tapes, providing a fast, secure means of transporting data between mainframe centers and the CDW environment. By using NAS devices, CDW staff are now able to move, stage, process, and load data in less than one tenth the time it took when using tapes. Finally, CDW has been an important part of a renewed effort by the IRS to develop a modernized data architecture to support enterprise transaction, operational, and warehousing needs. CDW is managed by a small organization with a limited budget but is having a big impact on IRS enterprise decision making.
SO, in 2007 IRS was moving away from tape storage. Yet in 2014 they state (under oath) that they are reusing tape cartridges every six months.