To some, tape storage may seem like an outdated technology in the era of NAS and object-based storage. But— here’s a surprise – tape today is more relevant than ever. Even the most modern data centers can benefit from its low cost of ownership, scalability, reliability and security. In our on demand webinar, Storage Switzerland is joined by Spectra Logic, Fujifilm and Iron Mountain to discuss why tape use shouldn’t just continue but actually expand, including in hybrid cloud environments.

1. 5 REASONS
FOR TAPE IN THE
MODERN DATA CENTER

2. George Crump
Founder/Lead Analyst
Storage Switzerland
Paul Luppino
Director, Data Management
Data Restoration and
and Migration Services
Iron Mountain
Rich Gadomski
VP Marketing
FujiFilm
Matt Ninesling
Director of Hardware
Engineering
Spectra Logic

3. A QUICK TIMELINE OF STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES
PRODUCTION SECONDARY STORAGE BACKUP STORAGE
Hard Disk
Flash + HDD
All-Flash
SCM + Flash
Tape
Disk + Tape
All Disk
Disk + Object +
Cloud + Tape
Flash + Tape + Cloud
Tape
Disk + Tape
All Disk
Flash + Cloud + Tape

4. WHY RE-INTRODUCE/EXPAND TAPE?
Cost and density
A physical air-gap (not a software-defined one)
Power efficient
Myths have all been proven false

5. ADDRESSING THE MYTHS
Reliability Speed Operational Difficulty

6. TAPE AND MEDIA BASICS
How does tape work?
How does a library work?
How is it different than hard
disk/flash technology?

7. THE USE CASES FOR TAPE IN
THE MODERN DATA
Tape for backup
Tape for archive
Tape as ransomware/cyber-attack prevention
Tape to reduce primary, secondary, and
cloud costs
Tape for analytics

9. Spectra Stack
• Scalable
• 6U base chassis with 6U expansion chassis as the volume of
your data increases
• Grow from 10 to 560 slots in a standard 42U rack
• Up to 6.7 PB with LTO-8 (uncompressed)
• Grow from 1 to 42 LTO tape drives in a single library
• Up to 12.6 GB/s throughput with LTO-8 (uncompressed)
• Under 30 minutes to add additional expansion chassis
• Easy to use
• User Installable
• User Scalable
• User Serviceable
• 5.7” Color Touch Screen
• Full Feature Set
• BlueVision software offers a feature set similar to Spectra’s
enterprise BlueScale software

10. Spectra T950
• 1 to 8 Frames
• 2 to 120 Drives
• TeraPack architecture for maximum density
• LTO-8: Up to 10,020 slots (over 120 PB of
uncompressed storage)
• TS1160: Up to 7,614 slots (over 152 PB of
uncompressed storage)
• But only what you need: Capacity on Demand
in 9 or 10 slot increments
• Compact rack-row design
• End user serviceable

11. TFinity ExaScale
• Up to 820 PB native capacity with TS1160
• 24 x 7 x 365 operations
• Dual robotics for availability and performance
• Over 400 mounts per hour for random access to all
tapes
• Flexible Configurations
• 3 to 44 frames
• 100 to 41,000 TS slots/54,000 LTO slots
• 2 to 144 tape drives
• TS1160, TS1155, LTO-8, LTO-7, T10K all in the
same library
• Upgrade in 9 TS or 10 LTO slot increments
• Dual Bulk TAPs optional
• TranScale upgrade path from smaller libraries
to TFinity

13. LTO’s error rate is 3-5 orders of
magnitude better than disk
YOUR DATA
IS ALWAYS
THERE WHEN
YOU NEED IT
BLU-RAYOPTICAL
DESKTOPSATAHDD
ENTERPRISESATAHDD
FIBRECHANNELSASHDD
FLASHSSD
LTO-8
1x1012 1x1014 1x1015 1x10191x1016 1x1017
We’ve written over 100 PB of data on LTO
tape. In fact, LTO-6 alone we have 22,185
tapes in our environment with a total of
1,110,062 mounts. In the history of our
organization, only one tape has ever had a
problem. And FUJIFILM fixed it in a day!
- Brookhaven National Labs, Long Island, NY
“
”
You are a million times
more likely to get struck by
lightening than get an
unrecoverable media error
with Fujifilm LTO-8
RELIABILITY
30+
Ideal for long-term archiving.
YEARS OF SHELF LIFE
Disk only has a shelf-life of 3-5 years

14. TAPE IS THE MOST COST
EFFECTIVE STORAGE, PERIOD
Estimations provided by Brad Johns Consulting 11/18
$10.656.0 TB I $63.90
$36.7112.0 TB I $444.41
$404.807.6 TB I $2,152.60
LTO-7
DISK
FLASH
LOWEST COST PER TB
LTO REMAINS THE OVERALL LOWEST COST
OF OWNERSHIP OF ANY LONG-TERM
DATA STORAGE SOLUTION
TCO COMPARISON
(10 Year Total)
Cloud Back-up
+ $1,400,000
Disk System
+ $1,000,000
Automated Tape System
< $235,000
1.0PB starting, 30% annual growth, 12% retrieval p/y
Two new TCO calculators from Brad Johns Consulting and the LTO consortium

15. AS DATA GROWS,
TAPE CAPACITY
GROWS WITH IT
220TB ON A SINGLE TAPE CARTRIDGE
VAL U E F R O M
I N N O VAT I O N
In 2015 Fujifilm achieved a world record in areal
density with Barium Ferrite Technology
Fujifilm is working with “Strontium Ferrite” which has even
better magnetic properties and higher areal density
400TB ON A SINGLE TAPE CARTRIDGE
GEN 12
GEN 11
GEN 10
GEN 9
GEN 8
GEN 7
GEN 6
GEN 5 3TB
6.25 TB
15 TB
30 TB
60 TB
120 TB
240 TB
480 TB
1.5 TB
2.5 TB
6 TB
12 TB
UP TO 24 TB
UP TO 48 TB
UP TO 96 TB
UP TO 192 TB
N A T I V E C O M P R E S S E D
NEW ROADMAP TO 12TH GENERATION

17. Iron Mountain Data Restoration & Migration Services
Modular Portfolio of Data Management Services
STORE
Tape data with centralized, secure vaulting
RESTORE
Tape data to quickly respond to compliance and litigation
requests, and recover from disasters or cyber attacks
MIGRATE
Tape data to the cloud to enable big data and analytics
OR move cloud data to tape for offline, added protection against
ransomware
RECOVER
Data from damaged hard drives and other IT assets
Data
Restoration
Data
Migration
Hard Disk Drive
Recovery
Offsite Media
Vaulting
ACCELERATE
Improve speed and ease of
finding, restoring, and migrating
data.
SIMPLIFY
Focus your staff on higher
priority projects and
workstreams.
OPTIMIZE
Devise a long-term
storage strategy
with higher ROI.

18. Data Restoration and Migration Services
Value to IT Leaders
ADDS SECURITY
Added data protection
through offline vaulting and
air gapped storage
BOOSTS IT LABOR
Free up IT to focus on impactful
business transformation projects –
analytics, big data, etc.
DRIVES TCO IN THE RIGHT WAY
Reduce overall cost of long-term
and archive storage. Examples:
- Back-Up Software Licenses
- IT SMEs
- Data Center Floor Space
SIMPLIFIES MIGRATION
Move legacy data back to any
cloud or location
MANAGED
SERVICES

19. Complete Chain of Custody
Data is scanned into tracking
system upon pickup
and delivery
Secure Transportation
Iron Mountain trucks
equipped with GPS
patented security
Vault Storage
Temperature and air quality
controls, as well as industry
leading security measures
The Iron Mountain Difference:
Data Restoration and Migration Services

20. CONTACT US
storageswiss.com
spectralogic.com
fujifilmusa.com
ironmountain.com
georgeacrump@storageswiss.com
inboundinquiry@spectralogic.com
fujifilmrecordingmediausa@gmail.com
paul.luppino@ironmountain.com
@storageswiss
@spectralogic
@fujifilmDS
@ironmountain
Storageswiss
Spectralogic
UC-Af3kOEwkbkUwaVst2q5Pg
IronMountain

21. For complete audio and Q&A please
register for the On Demand Version:
bit.ly/5forTape