Accelerating Green Datacenter Progress with Sustainable Storage Strategies

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Accelerating Green Datacenter Progress with Sustainable Storage Strategies

Today’s highly advanced magnetic tape has seen a resurgence in the marketplace in recent years, for the following reasons:

• Tape remains, by far, the lowest-cost storage media on a cost-per-gigabyte basis.
• Tape storage itself requires minimal power to operate and does not increase ambient temperatures, thus requiring minimal power to cool the datacenter environment.
• Tape can reliably store data for long periods with an excellent bit error rate and a long archival life exceeding 30 years.
• Tape has emerged as a valuable tool in the fight against ransomware.

WW Power Consumption/CO2 Emission Avoidance Associated With Shifting to Tape Storage