An easy scenario requiring a large set of data to be shared is science and medical. Do you have any idea how much data the Large Hadron Collider produces in a single run of the ATLAS or CMS experiments? If CERN needs to share its data with another lab or facility for analysis or certification, tapes would be an ideal method of transfer. Even smaller organizations can have massive amounts of data they need to share with partners or customers and tape makes the most sense again. If you need to perform disaster recovery for your company at a remote data center or colocation facility, tapes make moving all your data easy and you can send them by any physical delivery method with excellent chances of it making it to the facility intact. Home users don't need this level of storage, but a tape system that backs up a terabyte or two would be great for media collections and offline internet archives for home players. Tape isn't bad at all.
The real answer to the question "who needs 580 TB FedExed to them overnight?" is: nobody
You must not work in IT. Large companies and organizations need high capacity offline storage like this to move data to external facilities for disaster recovery. When you need to build up a new data center for recovery or even just initially seeding it, tapes like this make that possible. And what about places like CERN who share their huge amounts of data from the Large Hadron Collider with other labs and research groups? A single run of the ATLAS or CMS experiments produces massive amounts of data that other labs validate and analyze. Again, tapes like this can transfer data physically faster than any network connection. Just because you don't need a tape system like this at home doesn't mean business doesn't have needs for it. Fujifilm wouldn't have put money into developing this new tape system if there wasn't a need for it. There is definitely a need for it.
Are data centers sending physical copies of their data to different storage facilities by overnight mail?
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