You keep calling tape "moribund"
or "a dying medium" or "obsolete", but it rather looks as though nobody aside from those pimping VTLs and cloud backups agrees with you. Tape's here for a while yet, I think.
New mid-range tape libraries from Overland Storage indicate older models may be heading for the chip, and show there's life in the supposedly moribund tape dog yet. NEO 600s and 800s products, with four and six drives respectively, put the older 2-drive 2000e and 4-drive 4000e at risk. The new libraries slot in above the NEO …