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5 ESSENTIAL REASONS WHY TAPE SHOULD BE PART OF THE BACKUP PROCESS

Rich Gadomski
03/30/2023
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Reflecting on World Backup Day coming up on March 31st, I recall coming across
the following quote that recently appeared in an industry newsletter from an IT
executive that said:

> “For years IT administrators have worked hard to back up an increasing tsunami
> of data, and with each passing year, that has become harder to manage. In some
> cases, backup has been abandoned altogether. That is a precarious place to
> be.”

Indeed, a very precarious and dangerous place to be considering the increasing
value of data for data-driven organizations. Today’s modern and highly advanced
data tape systems can help solve the problem.

Here are five of the top reasons why tape should be part of the backup process:



 

TAPE IS COST-EFFECTIVE

Studies by industry TCO and sustainability expert Brad Johns Consulting compare
the long-term cost of tape, disk and cloud storage. For example, the ten-year
total cost of ownership (TCO) of 10 PB of storage (with capacity growing at 35%
annually) estimates a tape solution to be $1.9 million versus $8.8 million for
the disk storage solution. That 79% reduction means that anyone with PB class
storage is simply wasting money if they try to retain it all on disk. The math
works out similarly when sending data to the cloud. Tape is far cheaper than the
cloud when large amounts of data are being retained for long periods even with
minimal retrieval of that data. No wonder many of the hyperscale cloud service
providers are users of tape.

TAPE TAKES PRESSURE OFF DISK BACKUP

According to George Crump of Storage Switzerland, the size of most backup
repositories is about 10X that of the amount of production data. A big reason
why is that most companies keep backup data for at least five to seven years.
Yet 95% of recoveries take place within the first 10 days. Thus, organizations
are storing a lot of data on expensive, energy-intensive disks that will never
be reaccessed. That data still needs to be retained for legal, analytics, or
data protection purposes. The best approach is to continue to back up current
data to disk and offload older data and backups to tape. This works particularly
well for data that has a longer recovery time objective (RTO). This strategy can
bring about as much as an 80% reduction in disk capacity requirements, lowers
costs, and adds resilience as backups now reside on two different media. Check
out the video below where George maps out the use case and advantage of tape for
backups, now more relevant than ever:

 





 



TAPE IS MORE SECURE  

The LTO generation 9 specifications include multi–layer security support with
hardware–based encryption, immutable WORM (Write–Once, Read–Many) functionality,
and fast data access with both the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) and
Recommended Access Order (RAO). By retaining tape cartridges offline and
completely disconnected from the network, they are immune to ransomware attacks
and other unauthorized access. By establishing a tape “air gap”, hackers have no
network connection they can use to infect files. This provides much-needed
insurance against ransomware infection. With disk-based backup, there is always
a chance that cybercriminals can infect those files as they remain online.

TAPE IS MODERN AND HIGHLY ADVANCED

The IT world has always had a fixation on new shiny objects. While tape
technology has been around for 70 years, it has constantly evolved over the
decades. Today, a single LTO-9 tape cartridge can hold 45 TB of compressed data
(18 TB native). This represents a 50% capacity boost over LTO–8 and a 12X
increase over LTO-5 technology launched a decade or so ago. Transfer speeds are
now considerably faster than even HDDs at 400 MB/s (native), and 1,000 MB/s
(2.5:1 compression). On top of recent gains with the release of LTO-9, the
roadmap for further LTO innovation includes doubling capacity for each new
generation. That equates to 40% per year capacity growth for tape for the
foreseeable future with little or no areal density challenges compared to HDD
technology.

 



 

TAPE IS THE MOST ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY MEDIA

With data centers consuming around 2% of all electricity in the United States
and storage (the vast majority of it from hard disk drives) consuming about 20%
of total data center power, something must be done to change the equation in
light of the growing global warming and climate change concerns. Tape basically
only uses power when data is being actively read or written. A tape cartridge on
a shelf or sitting idle within a tape library slot consumes no power. Moving
cold and inactive data from disk to tape can bring about a 97% reduction in
carbon emission, according to recent studies.

ACTIVE ARCHIVES HELP TOO

Some worry that if they need to recover files retained on tape, it will take too
long. The worst-case scenario is that it might take a day to retrieve a
cartridge and ship it back onsite. But leading organizations in life sciences,
research, digital evidence, and media and entertainment are harnessing the
latest active archive solutions to keep all data online all the time so it can
be recovered far more rapidly. Restoration of objects or files can be done in a
matter of minutes. Active archiving is being used for capacity management to
remove colder data from backups thus improving system performance while ensuring
data preservation. An active archive takes advantage of tape’s low cost, high
capacity, longevity, and portability so that massive volumes of data can be
moved from primary storage and maintained online all the time for easy end-user
access. Additional copies of data can be moved offsite for the benefit of air
gap security.

On this World Backup Day, why not avoid precarious and dangerous places, and
reevaluate the usage of tape in your backup and active archiving processes?

 

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Rich Gadomski

Head of Tape Evangelism

As Head of Tape Evangelism for FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc., Rich is
responsible for driving industry awareness and end user understanding of the
purpose and value proposition of modern tape technology. Rich joined Fujifilm in
2003 as Director of Product Management, Computer Products Division, where he
oversaw marketing of optical, magnetic, and flash storage products. Previously
Rich held the position of Vice President of Marketing, Commercial Products,
where he was responsible for the marketing of data storage products, value added
services and solutions. Rich has more than 30 years of experience in the data
storage industry. Before joining Fujifilm, Rich was Director of Marketing for
Maxell Corp. of America where he was responsible for the marketing of data
storage products. Prior to that, Rich worked for the Recording Media Products
Division of Sony Electronics. Rich participates in several industry trade
associations including the Active Archive Alliance, the Linear Tape-Open
Consortium (LTO) and the Tape Storage Council. Rich also manages Fujifilm’s
annual Global IT Executive Summit. Rich holds a BA from the University of
Richmond and an MBA from Fordham University. FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A.,
Inc., is the leading manufacturer of commercial data tape products for
enterprise and midrange backup and archival applications and provides long term
data storage products and software through its FUJIFILM Data Management
Solutions team.


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