Cyber resilient, energy-efficient tape storage with air gap and long-term retention at a lower cost than other media
Long-term backup
Tape storage is used in system failure for data backup and to archive data for long-term storage.
The long-term retention of data including the archiving of data, regulatory and legal holds are all critical to the business. Tape helps to lower carbon impact, total cost of ownership (TCO) and energy consumption of long-term data retention.
Full range of tape libraries and autoloaders featuring high performance and capacity for entry, midrange and enterprise system environments.
Tape technology of archiving cold data with long-term retention makes possible to dramatically reduce the cost of storing growing amounts of data.
Tape combines long product lifecycles with low embedded and operational carbon footprint to support your sustainability initiatives.
Unparalleled data resilience, with “offline-by-design” physical air gap between your archived data and the outside world. Offering data encryption at rest to ensure data privacy and reduce the risk of data corruption due to virus or sabotage.
Tape portfolio
- Tape for Mainframe
- Tape for Open Systems
- IBM Storage Deep Archive
Tape for Mainframe
Get mission-critical storage with seamless hybrid cloud integration with cloud-based disaster recovery for tape, data encryption across the 8-cluster grid, smaller footprint.
Learn how to face challenges such as high data volumes, the growth of data centers and the rising cost of storage footprints.
Easy way to leverage high data density, improve security and a cost-effective long-term data retention infrastructure.
Superior quality tape media, designed to preserve your storage at the lowest possible cost.
Tape management software
Tape for Open Systems
Preserve and protect your data with sustainable, cyber-resilient, ultra-high density tape storage. It offers a maximum capacity of 46.4PB uncompressed with LTO-10. The drive type is LTO FH. The maximum number of drives is 14.
It offers a maximum capacity of 695PB with LTO-10 and 877 with TS1170. The drive types are LTO or TS1100. The maximum number of drives is 128.
It offers maximum capacity of 11.52PB with LTO 9. The drive types are LTO FH and HH. The maximum number of drives is 48.
It offers a maximum capacity of 162TB with LTO 9. The drive types are LTO HH and SAS. The maximum number of drives is 1.
The IBM Stand-Alone Drive is a half-height drive with LTO Ultrium 9 technology. It provides up to 45TB per cartridge (with 2.5:1 compression). Designed to help small and medium businesses handle the growing data demands of modern tape use cases like cloud, Internet of Things (IoT) and active file archive. It is an excellent choice if you require backup and low-cost, archival storage of data.
The IBM LTO Ultrium data cartridges offer long-term data preservation and rapid, reliable access to data. Increasing capacity and performance while enhancing data access that can reduce licensing costs and dependencies.
Deploy up to four stage devices in a 1U space in a 19-inch rack. Enable the performance and capacity enhancements of half-high Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium, DVD-RAM or removable disk drives.
Tape management software
IBM Storage Deep Archive
Simplified architecture with fast deployment increasing data density and energy savings.
Secure and durable storage for data archiving and online backup.
The solution allows customers to install, configure, manage and service with S3 Glacier protocols.
Tape management software
Optimize archival costs with physical air gap protection and an intuitive management system. Get direct, graphical access to data stored in IBM tape drives and libraries. IBM Storage Archive makes tape storage as easy as disk storage by incorporating the Linear Tape File System (LTFS) format standard for reading, writing and exchanging metadata.
Tape portfolio options
The IBM Tape portfolio provides an array of choices to best suit the client requirements. From single drive entry levels, to scale up infrastructure. Here is a highlighted review of the options currently available.
| Product | IBM Storage Archive | Max Capacity* | Max #drives | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TS2290 | Entry | Single Drive Edition | 18TB | 1 |
| 7226 | Entry | Single Drive Edition | 18TB | 1 |
| TS2900 | Entry | Library Edition | 162TB | 1 |
| TS4300 | Mid-range Scale capacity | Library Edition Enterprise Edition | 11.52PB | 48 |
| Diamondback IBM Storage Deep Archive | Scale capacity | Enterprise Edition | 46.4PB | 14 |
| TS4500 | Scale capacity | Enterprise Edition | 695PB LTO 877PB** Enterprise | 128 |
| Tape for Mainframe | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TS7700 Tape Attach | 100PB Enterprise** | 16 | ||
| LTO*/TS1170 | 100PB Enterprise** | 16 |
Support and services
IBM Storage Expert Care offers a simplified, standardized approach to service and support for select IBM Storage Systems, helping optimize system availability and reduce costs.
IBM provides support and services for IBM Storage products and solutions to help clients plan, deploy, support, optimize and refresh their IBM Storage solutions.
IBM Diamondback Expert Care offers you a new way of attaching services and support to IBM storage solutions through service tiers that let you choose the level of support for your systems.