With archive stores averaging 3 PB and archival data growth rates reaching 40%, there has never been a better time to reassess the value of HPE StoreEver.

ESG analysed the ten-year TCO of HPE StoreEver and found that an organisation can achieve 92% cost savings over costs incurred when using the public cloud.

The Tape Storage Council, which includes HPE and other leading tape vendors, has issued this new report to highlight the current trends, usages and technology innovations occurring within the tape storage industry. LTO tape continues to expand its offerings and reach, and its growth has been fueled by more than a decade of significant technological development. This trend shows no signs of letting up. Steady technology improvements mean LTO continues to provide the optimum blend of lowest cost, highest capacity, fastest data transfer rates, and outstanding reliability for archival storage.

The LTO logo specification is an important benchmark, but when it comes to the quality of data protection, HPE knows – from decades of supporting a huge installed base of tape customers – end users seek assurances of reliability that go further still. That’s why HPE has extra requirements, unique to its own brand of media, to complement the industry standard with a gold standard for quality and reliability.