Bring in the experts to backup your systems

I recently interviewed for a position in an advertising firm and was given a tour after the interview. I was extremely surprised when they took me by the (very cold) IT room and saw that it was filled with countless backup tapes from their system. I asked (politely of course) if they were planning on going to tapeless backup any time soon since it was one of the best and least bulky way of backing up data. The interviewer told me that they were planning on it eventually, but their IT person had quit and this was all they knew how to do for now.