The LTO 8 announcement represents a return to the good old days, when the LTO program was running on a two to 2 ½ year announcement cycle between generations. The new tape offering, will support a 12 TB tape cartridge, providing a very high capacity, scalable, resilient and secure storage media for backup and archive applications. Clearly, given the amount of data that is being created and stored today, organizations of all sizes must consider tape storage to deal with the massive quantities of data in a cost effective and energy efficient way.
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See AllIBM, 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
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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
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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
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