Big Data has burst onto the Information Technology scene. The confluence of advances in servers, analytic techniques and software has changed the way enterprises deal with computing infrastructures.  The variety, volume and velocity of Big Data are also accelerating. Diverse applications such as simulation, visualization, modeling, seismic, video surveillance, and analytics are creating and processing unprecedented amounts of unstructured information.  While these applications provide exciting new insights for business, they also place increasing requirements on the storage infrastructure and challenge storage management in a multitude of ways.  The StrongBox Big Data solution is a powerful new tool that integrates IBM tape libraries to simplify management of Big Data storage repositories and lower associated costs. Taming Big Data Storage with StrongBox

The goal of this white paper is to provide guidance to storage suppliers, storage re-marketers and customers on the long term costs associated with storing file archive data. The amount of archive data is projected to grow dramatically over the coming years, and yet customers’ Information Technology budgets are highly constrained. As a result, organizations are looking for cost effective solutions for the data archival. This paper evaluates two approaches to storing file based, non-compressible, archive data: 1) a solution that includes the new Crossroads Systems StrongBox® configured with an enterprise tape library and, 2) an equivalent amount of Unified Storage from a leading industry supplier. The white paper finds that customers may reduce TCO up to 80% over a ten year period with the StrongBox tape-based solution.