Oracle has shipped more enterprise tape drives than any other vendor in the first half of calendar year 2011, according to IDC’s Worldwide Tape QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle also shipped the most tape libraries, over 1,000 slots, and held over 70 percent market share for LTO libraries over 1,000 slots, according to QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive is the world's fastest tape drive, also delivering a 5TB native capacity -- the world's highest -- with a transfer rate of up to 252 MB/second.
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StorageNewsletter.com has published a story on the results of two studies of TCO in a variety of tape vs. disk scenarios. Both studies found that tape had long-term cost advantages when compared to a scenario that relied on a disk-only solution. The TCO under The Clipper Group scenario found the disk solution for long-term archiving to be more than $67M, contrasted to the $4.5M cost to deploy a tape solution a 12 year scenario. The cost of energy alone for disk at was $4M and only about $18k for tape.
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With a 5 TB native capacity and 240 MB/second native throughput, the StorageTek T10000C offers more than 3x the capacity and is 50 to 70 percent faster than any other tape drive, including the LT0-5 and the IBM TS1130. Compared to disk-only solutions from EMC, Oracle's StorageTek solution scales to 30x the capacity and 50x the performance, while requiring 99 percent less power and cooling. This increased capacity and throughput helps customers reduce the costs of enterprise storage while providing the fastest backup and archive solutions available today.
Oracle's StorageTek tape storage solutions are the first to scale to an exabyte (1000 PB with 2:1 compression) to handle the world's largest archive and long-term backup requirements.
Oracle's StorageTek tiered storage solutions incorporate the advantages of both disk and tape, and deliver the most scalable, cost-efficient, and energy-efficient storage solutions for heterogeneous data protection, consolidation, archiving and cloud environments.
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The white paper "Oracle's StorageTek LTO-5 Tape Drive: Industry Leading Scalability discusses Oracle's tiered storage strategy and the important role that tape plays in that scheme. Specifically, the new StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive streams data at over 140 MB/sec (uncompressed) as compared to the competitive technologies that are only capable of rates below 50 MB/s. Further, the StorageTek LTO-5 is the first tape drive to offer 150 petabytes of storage capacity in a single tape library when it is coupled with Oracle's StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System.
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Oracle announced it is the first enterprise tape automation vendor to offer up to 150 petabytes of native storage capacity managed in a single tape library. This is a result of the enhancements to the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System and the StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive. With the SL8500 supporting the LTO-5 and increasing its scalable capacity from 70,000 to 100,000 tape slots and redundant electronics, the tape libraries now offer a 90 percent increase in capacity over LTO-4 drives and a 16 percent improvement in overall performance, Oracle said.
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