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Tape
Tape continues to raise the bar for the data storage industry. Many new advancements in the tape industry were announced throughout the last year that have expanded tape’s value proposition. These innovative technologies have made significant increases in tape’s capacity and long-term storage capabilities. Since tape capacity continually grows with the expanding need for data storage, many companies are choosing tape because it is not only the safest means for data protection but also the most affordable. In the last 10 years, LTO tape has increased capacity by 1,400 percent, performance 200 percent, and reliability 9,900 percent
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What would you say to an existing tape client looking to switch to them?
If you are using the lowest cost storage tiers in the cloud there is a very good chance that you are still storing your data on tape, just not on your own tape. These cloud-based solutions can make good sense financially for storing a second copy of archive data or for smaller companies with multi-terabyte data sets. However, if you are a data-driven organisation that is archiving petabytes, then it is going to cost much more to store it in the cloud than in an on-premise tape library - especially if you are pulling information in and out of the archive on a regular basis. Remember to consider egress charges, bandwidth costs, and time to get data over the connection to the cloud when making these comparisons.
There was a high adoption of LTO-7 Type M in the first year and a half after the release of LTO-8 tape drives based on both the low cost per TB of LTO-7 Type M and availability issues with LTO-8 media. Once LTO-8 media became readily available and the price dropped due to competition in the market, there has been a high adoption rate for LTO-8 media.
A SAN is a dedicated, high-speed network that interconnects one or more storage systems and presents them as a pool of block-level storage resources. In addition to the storage arrays themselves, a SAN includes multiple application servers for managing data access, storage management software that runs on those servers, host bus adapters (HBAs) to connect to the dedicated network, and the physical components that make up that network’s infrastructure, which include high-speed cabling and special switches for routing traffic.
Tape will continue to follow an established precedence of large capacity improvements with each new generation increasing in capacity, advancing to almost 200TB native capacity on a single piece of media, according to the LTO Consortium’s tape roadmap. Following this roadmap, tape will continue to be the lowest cost and most reliable way to store massive volumes of data for long-term digital preservation.
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