{"id":10263,"date":"2023-10-23T14:01:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oberig-it.com\/uncategorized\/greener-it-strategies-how-tape-backups-drive-environmental-efficiency-lower-tco-and-enhance-data-protection\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T14:37:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T11:37:17","slug":"greener-it-strategies-how-tape-backups-drive-environmental-efficiency-lower-tco-and-enhance-data-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oberig-it.com\/en\/articles\/greener-it-strategies-how-tape-backups-drive-environmental-efficiency-lower-tco-and-enhance-data-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Greener IT Strategies: How Tape Backups Drive Environmental Efficiency, Lower TCO, and Enhance Data Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data backup solutions employ various technologies, from hard disk drives (HDDs) to solid-state drives (SSDs) to the cloud. But there\u2019s one data protection technology that\u2019s been around for decades that often isn\u2019t considered\u2014but should be.<\/p>\n

That technology is tape. Developed by Univac<\/span><\/a> in 1951, tape has stood the test of time, with global tape storage sales projected to grow from $4.63 billion in 2022 to $5.22 billion<\/span><\/a><\/strong> in 2023, a 12.6 percent CAGR.<\/p>\n

There are good reasons behind the continued growth of tape for data protection. Let\u2019s look at a few.<\/p>\n

Tape Storage Slashes Emissions<\/strong><\/p>\n

A recent article in IEEE Spectrum points out that tape media generates just three percent of the carbon dioxide that HDDs emit<\/strong>. The article also notes that the computing industry represented as much as 1.8 percent of the United States\u2019 total electricity consumption in 2014.<\/p>\n

The numbers IEEE shares say it all when it comes to emissions. HDDs, while faster than tape storage, have a lifespan of about five years, producing about 2.55 equivalent kilograms of carbon dioxide per year based on one Seagate estimate<\/span><\/a>. On the other hand, tape media has a lifespan of more than 30 years, emitting just 0.07 kilograms of carbon dioxide per year<\/strong>, based on an estimate<\/span><\/a> from Fujifilm.<\/p>\n

That massive reduction in environmental impacts can go a long way toward meeting your environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. But tape does more than help the environment.<\/p>\n

Tape Data Backup Solutions Lower TCO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tape can substantially reduce your data storage total cost of ownership (TCO). Tom\u2019s Hardware says that tape storage is typically replaced every ten years<\/span><\/a>, while HDDs are replaced every four to seven years<\/strong>. That reduces e-waste and its associated costs and hardware replacement costs.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s also important to note that, according to IDC, as much as 60 percent<\/span><\/a> of data could be kept in \u201ccold\u201d storage. Tape fits that bill perfectly. When data storage consultant Brad Johns used Fujifilm\u2019s data storage TCO tool<\/span><\/a>, his calculations illustrated the significance of the potential savings: Storing 100 PB of data on hard disks over ten years costs $17,707,468 while a mix that includes 60 percent tape cuts that cost nearly in half, to $9,476,339<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Air-Gapped Tape Ensures Ransomware Protection and Data Recovery<\/strong><\/p>\n

You add another layer of ransomware protection by storing your backups on air-gapped tape\u2014disconnected from your network and unreachable by hackers. The best tape data management software solutions\u2014like Arcserve Tape Backup software<\/span><\/a>\u2014help you protect your high-capacity storage and realize increased efficiency.<\/p>\n

Arcserve Tape Backup doesn\u2019t limit your data backup options<\/strong>. It can meet application-specific requirements with backup to tape, backup to disk, disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T), disk-to-disk-to-cloud (D2D2C), and virtual tape library (VTL).<\/p>\n

The software also supports hardware snapshots, multiplexing, and multi-streaming. And you can count on faster, more efficient backups and restores with UNIX and Linux data movers for storage-area network- (SAN) based backups.<\/p>\n

Simplify Tape Backup With Sophisticated Functionality, Centralized Management and Reporting<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you suffer a data disaster, Arcserve Tape Backup data recovery software offers efficient, effective disaster recovery thanks to its sophisticated functionality<\/strong>. That includes the ability to incorporate it into your VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Citrix XenServer platforms, simplifying system management, providing a view of your entire environment, and giving you the ability to mitigate the risk of data loss on virtualized servers.<\/p>\n

You can also increase reliability with the software\u2019s smart restore capabilities and redirect restore jobs to other media containing the same data without manual intervention.<\/p>\n

Arcserve Tape Backup features centralized management and storage resource manager (SRM) reporting. You can monitor the status of all backup activities, find out which nodes are taking the longest, locate backed-up data, and track volume, disk, and memory usage on every production server<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong>\u00a0Greener IT Strategies: How Tape Backups Drive Environmental Efficiency, Lower TCO, and Enhance Data Protection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Data backup solutions employ various technologies, from hard disk drives (HDDs) to solid-state drives (SSDs) to the cloud. But there\u2019s one data protection technology that\u2019s been around for decades that often isn\u2019t considered\u2014but should be. That technology is tape. 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