For the storage of “cold” data, that is information that is not going to be accessed frequently, tape storage continues to provide compelling cost savings. The linked presentation highlights the potential savings of tape storage versus high capacity, low-cost disk systems, cloud storage and flash. I used very conservative assumptions regarding the various costs, and tape storage was 74% less expensive than disk and 84% less than cloud.
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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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