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Description
The CERN Tape Archive (CTA) is CERN’s Free and Open Source Software system for data archival to tape. Across the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), the tape software landscape is quite heterogeneous, but we are entering a period of consolidation. A number of sites have reevaluated their options and have chosen CTA for their tape archival storage needs. To facilitate this, the CTA team have added a number of community features, allowing CTA to be used as the tape backend for dCache and to facilitate migrations from other tape systems such as OSM and Enstore. CTA is now packaged and distributed as a public release, free from CERN-specific dependencies, together with a set of operations tools. This contribution presents the latest CTA community features and roadmap.
| Desired slot length | 20 |
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| Speaker release | Yes |
