HPE StoreEver LTO Tape Brochure

Some highlights from the HP LTO Tape Brochure:

• By 2030, Further Research estimates that new data storage capacity shipments will reach 11.3 ZB, a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 30% between 2023 and 2030.

• And at the same point, Further Research also predict the installed base of Enterprise data could be 35.8 ZB, compared to only 6.4 ZB in 2023. As much as 70% of this new data universe will be classified as cold or frozen in nature. Effectively, this means a doubling every 3.5 years.

• The majority of this cold and frozen data is rarely accessed but it needs to be retained, secure from the threat of ransomware, due to compliance requirements and business strategy. Using expensive primary or secondary storage is illogical so what’s the alternative? The answer is active archiving with HPE StoreEver tape as the foundation.

• An HPE StoreEver tape system, in conjunction with ISV active archiving software, can be integrated in a tiered data management, where data is passed seamlessly between mission critical, secondary storage or archive tiers and across on-prem systems and the cloud. In a survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, 71% of businesses reported significant improvements in data retrieval times when active archives were deployed.

• Four Reasons why you can win the space race with HPE StoreEver LTO Tape:

  • Scalability - Further Research predicts that by 2030, the installed base of Enterprise data will reach a staggering 35.8 ZB, the overwhelming majority of which will be cold or frozen data. While hard disk (HDD) areal density growth has slowed dramatically, constraining the size of HDDs, the 14 generation LTO roadmap is projecting tape media capacities of 1.4 PB per cartridge. This makes HPE StoreEver LTO tape the ideal, ultra-dense, cold data storage platform of the future.

  • Security - A recent study by backup software vendor, Veeam, found that in 93% of ransomware incidents, criminals target connected backup repositories, resulting in more than one-third (39%) of these backups being completely lost. HPE StoreEver tape technology can make your backup and resore processes ultra-secure by allowing you to keep copies of your business data completely offline and disconnected from all network activity. As such, HPE StoreEver is the final part of the 3-2-1-1 best practice rule which proposes you maintain three copies of your data, on at least two different media types, with one stored offsite and one stored offline behind a true airgap.

  • Sustainability - The cold data oceans of the future will have more in common with the Antarctic than with the warmer seas of the Tropics. But the extraordinary rise of a vast, largely inert information store presents a number of challenges relating to sustainability that tape technology uniquely addresses. Although each organisation will need to analyse its own IT workloads to determine the most sustainable solution, by deploying HPE StoreEver, businesses and institutions might be able to reduce the CO2 emissions associated with archiving cold data an thereby support broader sustainability goals

  • Savings - Using LTO technology for long term data storage can dramatically lower the cost of storing and managing data over timeframes spanning decades in comparison to all-disk or all-cloud solutions10. With extremely low cost per TB, high storage density to maximise data centre resources and vast and flexible scalability, tape is better suited to the colossal data storage demands of the looming ‘zettabyte era’. LTO Savings - Total 10 Year Cost of Ownership: LTO-Savings: $139,488 vs HDD and $516,503 vs Cloud Deep Archive

Conclusion

The ability of HPE StoreEver LTO tape technology to continuously innovate, while providing compelling TCO advantages and a unique barrier against cyber security threats, make it more essential today than it has ever been. This is witnessed by the fact that in 2023, industry LTO tape media capacity shipments reached a new record level of 152.9 EB12. Clearly, the demand for tape storage is higher than it has ever been. And with the growing urgency of climate action, tape’s ability to store petabytes of infrequently accessed data with minimal environmental impact should increase its popularity still further. But as businesses embark upon a new ‘space race’, HPE believes the natural solution to some of these strategic long term data storage challenges will be to expand your archival capabilities with HPE StoreEver LTO Ultrium tape solutions. When it comes to helping you manage vast cold data archives, HPE StoreEver has the right stuff!

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