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Cyber resilient, energy-efficient tape storage with airgap and long-term retention at a lower cost than other media
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Tape storage is used for data backup in case of system failure and for archiving 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, TCO, and energy consumption of long term data retention.

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Benefits Expansive functionality

Full range of tape libraries and autoloaders featuring high performance and capacity for entry, midrange and enterprise system environments.

Lowest cost tiered storage

Tape technology of archiving cold data with long-term retention makes possible to dramatically reduce the cost of storing growing amounts of data.

Sustainable technology

Tape combines long product lifecycles with low embedded and operational carbon
footprint to support your sustainability initiatives.

Cyber Resilience

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 for Mainframe

IBM tape portfolio, protect data and reduce storage costs

Virtual tape for mainframe IBM TS7770 Virtual Tape Family 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. View TS7770 family

Next generation cloud storage IBM TS4500 with IBM Enterprise Tape Drive Learn how to face challenges such as high data volumes, growth of data centers and the rising cost of storage footprints. View TS4500 Tape Library
IBM TS1100 tape drives, air-gap with increased capacity IBM Enterprise Tape Drive Easy way to leverage high data density, improve security and a cost-effective long-term data retention infrastructure. View IBM Enterprise Tape Drive

High performance data retention IBM 3592 Tape Cartridge Superior quality tape media, designed to preserve your storage at the lowest possible cost. View IBM 3592 Tape Cartridge

IBM Storage Deep Archive

NEW!

IBM Storage Deep Archive is the next generation long-term archival solution optimized for Deep-but-Accessible data. Delivering the benefits of tape storage, in an easy-to-use, easy to integrate solution.

Low cost purpose-built design Simplified architecture with fast deployment increasing data density and energy savings.

On-premise cloud archive storage Secure and durable storage for data archiving and online backup.
S3 Glacier compatible interface Solution allowing customers to install, configure, manage, and service with S3 Glacier protocols.
Tape Management Software
IBM Storage Archive 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. Explore IBM Storage Archive
Tape portfolio

The IBM Tape portfolio provides an array of choices to best suit the client requirements. From single drive entry levels all the way to scale up infrastructure. Here is a highlight review of the options currently available.

Product

IBM Storage Archive

Max Capacity*

Max #drives

Max #cartriges

TS2290

Entry Single Drive Edition

18TB

1

1

LTO only

7226

Entry Single Drive Edition

18TB

1

1

LTO only

TS2900

Entry Library Edition

162TB

1

9

LTO only

TS4300

Mid-range Scale capacity Library Edition Enterprise Edition

11.52PB

48

640

LTO only

Diamondback

IBM Storage Deep Archive
Scale capacity Enterprise Edition

27.8PB*

14

1548 LTO

LTO only

TS4500

Scale capacity Enterprise Edition

417 PB LTO

877 PB** Enterprise

128

23,170LTO

17,550 Enterprise

LTO/TS1100

Tape for Mainframe

TS7700 Tape Attach

100 PB Enterprise**

16

5,000 Enterprise

LTO/TS1100

LTO*/TS1170

100 PB Enterprise**

16

5,000 Enterprise

LTO/TS1100

* Actual capacity will vary depending on reserve and swap slot configuration

** TS1170 capacity with JF media 

Support and services IBM Storage Expert Care for IBM TS7700

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.

Technology lifecycle services for IBM Storage

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 Storage Expert Care for IBM Diamondback

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.

Next steps

Discover how scalable, secure and energy-efficient tape storage can benefit your organization.

IBM Tape Library Guide for Open Systems redbook