Attempting to estimate the cost of long-term data storage can be a daunting task. In this video, George Crump and I discuss the essential elements of Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the capabilities of the TCO tool that I developed in conjunction with Fujifilm. It is an easy-to-use tool that compares the 10 year TCO of storing information on disk, tape, and in the cloud. The video can be found at this link.
IBM, in conjunction with Fujifilm, announced a new enterprise tape drive and tape media. The new IBM TS1170 tape drive supports a 50 TB native capacity tape cartridge. This is a dramatic increase in c
The IEEE SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal published my paper "Improving Information Technology Sustainability With Modern Tape Storage" in the August 2023 issue. The paper can be found at this link. Susta
The new LTO 9 tape drives and media have been added to the TCO tool, and the ten-year TCO is based on LTO 9 with a future migration to LTO 11 in year 6. Industry disk pricing and power costs have been