Value of Tape

A technology whose time has come

Discover how LTO tape consistently defies its critics and what this means for the future of data protection. Explore the magical, shapeshifting properties that enable tape to adapt to the need to store, protect and manage data in the zettabyte age.

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The rise and rise of LTO tape storage

Magnetic tape is the ultimate survivor technology, moving from 1960s frontline computing to power space-age artificial intelligence, IoT and machine learning applications. It’s the go-to technology for compliant, immutable, lifelong data storage at scale. And the one thing you can depend on for disaster recovery and ransomware resilience.

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Lasting innovation

In 20 years, LTO tape technology has systematically compressed the contents of a warehouse-sized tape archive into a cartridge you can hold in the palm of your hand. That’s a massive 45 TB of incorruptible data that can be retrieved in an instant. And it doesn’t stop here. Our engineers have many more tricks up their sleeve to secure tape’s value for years to come.

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Save more data, for longer, for less

As data grows beyond anyone’s imagination and tape technology expands to match it, the relative costs of owning and maintaining your tape libraries are falling in real terms. Independent studies comparing the relative costs of storing data on tape, disk or cloud, unanimously conclude that tape is the undeniable hero technology.

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The ultimate last line of defence against cyberattack

Ransomware isn’t a new idea. It’s just got a lot smarter at avoiding detection amid the wealth of opportunity created by our online, forever connected world. Now, it’s always open season for cybercriminals. Tape, stored in an off-site library breaks the chain and keeps your data out of the line of fire.

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Five nines reliability, and then some

How certain can you be that when the chips are down, you can always get your data back? With the lowest error rates of any storage technology and a testing regime that exceeds the LTO spec, you’re more likely to get eaten by a shark than encounter an unrecoverable error on an HPE StoreEver LTO tape.

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Tape’s hidden asset

Moving inactive or archive data over to LTO tape can dramatically cut data centre energy usage and costs. In one scenario, when 80% of archive data and 57% of replicated data destined for enterprise disk storage systems is migrated to tape, emissions could fall by more than 43% over 10 years. With a global hyperscale data centre population estimated at 1,200 by 2026 , imagine the difference that would make to the IT industry’s environmental impact.

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