Question

You re an IS professional, and your boss has asked you to prepare a briefing for senior staff on the comparative advantages and disadvantages of three competing tape drive technologies: Digital Linear Tape (DLT), Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT), and Linear Tape Open (LTO). Search the technology Web sites in Table 1.1 for source material to help you prepare the briefing. Which sites provide the most useful information? Which sites enable you to find useful information easily?
Reference: Table 1.1:
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Accepted Answer

Advanced Intelligent Tape 
Type the web address for the website CNET in any of the web browser such as internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox and wait for the page to open. Once the page is opened then search for the digital linear tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd4a_adfc_31a0089df2c0_SM6490_00 On the same CNET website search for the advanced intelligent tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd4b_adfc_994b44a1db5a_SM6490_00 On the same CNET website search for the Linear tape open (LTO) in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd4c_adfc_bd5fa35cfd4b_SM6490_00 Type the web address for the website Earhtweb in any of the web browser such as internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox and wait for the page to open. Once the page is opened then search for the digital linear tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd4d_adfc_8b00329f93a5_SM6490_00 On the same Earthweb website search for the advanced intelligent tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd4e_adfc_cffced73d812_SM6490_00 On the same Earthweb website search for the advanced Linear Tape Open in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd4f_adfc_adfba7db193c_SM6490_00 Type the web address for the website Internet in any of the web browser such as internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox and wait for the page to open. Once the page is opened then search for the digital linear tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd50_adfc_13e7fbd6d7cf_SM6490_00 On the same Internet website search for the advanced intelligent tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd51_adfc_0d4f533bfc7c_SM6490_00 On the same Internet website search for the Linear Tape Open in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
 11eb76a5_5982_fd52_adfc_2341bf1a0d98_SM6490_00 Type the web address for the website ITWorld in any of the web browser such as internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox and wait for the page to open. Once the page is opened then search for the digital linear tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same ITWorld website search for the advanced intelligent tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same ITWorld website search for the Linear Tape Open in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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Type the web address for the website NetworkWorld in any of the web browser such as internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox and wait for the page to open. Once the page is opened then search for the digital linear tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same NetworkWorld website search for the advanced intelligent tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same NetworkWorld website search for the Linear Tape Open in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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Type the web address for the website TomsHardware in any of the web browser such as internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox and wait for the page to open. Once the page is opened then search for the digital linear tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same TomsHardware website search for the advanced intelligent tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same TomsHardware website search for the Linear Tape open in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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Type the web address for the website TechRepublic in any of the web browser such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox and wait for the page to open. Once the page is opened then search for the digital linear tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same CNET website search for the advanced intelligent tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same CNET website search for the Linear Tape Open in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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Type the web address for the website TechWeb in any of the web browser such as internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox and wait for the page to open. Once the page is opened then search for the digital linear tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same TechWeb website search for the advanced intelligent tape in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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On the same TechWeb website search for the Linear Tape Open in the search bar, results will be displayed then on the front page:
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The advantages of Digital Linear Tape, Advanced Intelligent Tape and Linear Tape Open is given as follows:
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Disadvantages of all the above three tapes described is as follows:
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The websites useful to collect all these information were CNET and NetworkWorld as these websites contain data related to technical electronic devices and information necessary for IS professionals. These websites provided the best results with minimum span of time and the necessary data could be obtained by filtering the results as per the user's requirements.

Systems Architecture 6th Edition by Stephen Burd

Systems Architecture 6th Edition by Stephen Burd