BIG DATA TAPE LIBRARY BUYER’S GUIDE by Ben Maas and Jerome Wendt

The Insider’s Guide to Evaluating Big Data Tape Libraries

2014-15 BIG DATA TAPE LIBRARY BUYER’S GUIDE By Ben Maas and Jerome Wendt

2013-14

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction 15 Big Data Tape Library Models

16 Dell PowerVault ML6010 39 Overland Storage NEO 2000e 3 Executive Summary 17 Dell PowerVault ML6020 40 Overland Storage NEO 4000e 18 Dell PowerVault ML6030 41 Overland Storage NEO 8000e 5 How to Use this Buyer’s Guide 19 Dell PowerVault TL2000 42 Quantum Scaler i40 20 Dell PowerVault TL4000 43 Quantum Scaler i80 6 Disclosures 21 HP StoreEver ESL G3 100-Slot 44 Quantum Scalar i500 22 HP StoreEver ESL G3 300-Slot 45 Quantum Scalar i6000 6 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria 23 HP StoreEver ESL G3 700-Slot 46 Spectra Logic T50e 24 HP StoreEver ESL G3 1500-Slot 47 Spectra Logic T120 7 The 8-Step Process Used to Score 25 HP StoreEver ESL G3 3000-Slot 48 Spectra Logic T200 and Rank Tape Libraries 26 HP StoreEver ESL G3 5000-Slot 49 Spectra Logic T380 27 HP StoreEver MSL2024 50 Spectra Logic T680 8 DCIG Comments & Thoughts 28 HP StoreEver MSL4048 51 Spectra Logic T950 8 The Big Data Tape Library Category 29 HP StoreEver MSL6480 52 Spectra Logic T-Finity as a Whole 30 IBM TS3100 53 Tandberg Data 8 The Rise of LTO-6 31 IBM TS3200 Storage Library T24 8 The Evolving Role of Tape 32 IBM TS3310 54 Tandberg Data Storage Library T40+ 9 REST APIs and Secondary Cloud Storage 33 IBM TS3500 34 Oracle StorageTek SL150 55 Tandberg Data Storage Library T80+ 9 DCIG Observations & Recommendations 35 Oracle StorageTek SL3000 56 Tandberg Data 36 Oracle StorageTek SL8500 9 Best-in-Class and Storage Library T120+ Recommended Rankings 37 Overland Storage NEO 200s 57 Tandberg Data 10 Excellent Ranking 38 Overland Storage NEO 400s Storage Library T160+ 10 Good Ranking 11 Basic Ranking

12 Big Data Tape Library 58 Product Rankings Dashboard Scores and Rankings Appendices A-1 Appendix A—Definitions, Explanations and Terminology B-1 Appendix B—Storage Provider Contact Information C-1 Appendix C—Author Contact Information

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Introduction No one would make the statement that tape as a storage medium will ever leapfrog disk again as the preferred method of data storage. However it can be said with confidence that one of the oldest computer storage medium is holding steady in its current niche and is here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future.

Expansive tape libraries remain a necessity as the Big Data market grows ever larger each year. An illustration of this growth is that while tape sales dropped by 14% in 2012 overall, sales actually rose by 1% in the third quarter of 2012, and some analysts expect them to increase again by at least 3% in calendar year 2013.1 The amount of data growth is becoming exponentially greater with small, medium and large enterprise organizations alike gener- ate much more data. As they do, they are coming to the realization (again) that storing data to tape remains a cost-effective and viable option.

The benefits of tape over disk for long-term storage are well-documented. However it is worth repeating to reinforce why tape is still necessary, and why its allure will hold steady or possibly even grow slightly as the need for data storage capacity expands.

Tape is good at leaving data at rest. This makes the cost structure of tape particularly attractive to users with large data sets that, once created, stay relatively static. Most Big Data datasets are constantly growing, but once data is created, that data rarely changes. On the other side, disk can present disadvantages to the storage of static data because the operational costs of keeping disk drives spinning are much greater than tape’s inherent state of “set it and forget it.”

Tape also offers distinctive security and reliability advantages over disk. Data backed up to tape is typically more secure than data stored on disk or in the cloud because, in part, tape can make data more difficult to access and then retrieve. As a result, the average hacker is more likely to spend time trying to hack a storage cloud than to go to the trouble of break- ing into a storage facility where tape backups are stored, retrieve those tapes, load them into a tape library, and then go through each tape cartridge to find and access the data stored on them.

Lastly, tape libraries are still more physically reliable than disk. For instance, tapes can be repaired after snapping to make the data readable again. In contrast, a failed hard disk drive (HDD) is often rendered useless with the data on it becoming inaccessible.

To put this contrast into perspective, data loss could range from a lost terabyte on a failed HDD while on a repaired tape the loss could be limited to as little as a few hundred mega- bytes (or less) lost. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory, is a perfect example of the effective difference between data loss from tape backup versus disk storage. While it loses a few hundred MBs each year out of its 100 PB tape library, it loses about a few hundred TBs during the same time period from its HDD storage repository of 50 PB.2

Aside from the various legacy advantages that tape still holds over disk, there are some advances being made in tape storage medium, most notably with REST APIs, which are one of the new features identified and scored by theDCIG 2014-15 Big Data Tape Library

1. "Tape Rescues Big Data." The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 26 Sept. 2013. Web. . 2. Ibid.

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Introduction (continued)

Introduction (continued) Buyer's Guide. REST uses a subset of HTTP, a protocol with which many programmers are already familiar, meaning they can write code for it with few complications. Furthermore, REST APIs are web-based services and protocols that make up much of the underpinnings of new public and private cloud datasets.

Roughly one out of every four of the models surveyed for this Buyer's Guide support the ability to store data directly to tape using REST. As a way to ease the initial ingest of data and migration between different tiers of data storage, at least one vendor, Spectra Logic, is simulating the Amazon S3 REST protocol. Additionally, nine models further support the ability to store data to secondary cloud storage. The combination of REST APIs with cloud storage being offered more closely alongside tape storage is a significant step forward for the tape storage industry.

The DCIG 2012 Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide focused on the then recently introduced LTFS (Linear Tape File System) as the major advancement in tape storage. Although an important advancement, that technology has not contributed to the expansion of the medium as much as one might have been expected. It does appear, however, that REST APIs are set to be the next “big thing” in the near future and will help to further cement tape as the optimum choice for organizations tasked with storing and keeping safe massive quantities of data for extended periods of time in a cost-effective manner.

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Executive There has been a campaign against tape since at least the turn of the century as disk Summary storage vendors, historically the competitors of tape storage, have sought to sunset tape technology. As storage advancements have increased, hard drives have become cheaper and able to handle larger amounts of data with fewer complications. Despite the techno- logical advancements for disk, however, it still cannot challenge tape for its supremacy in its ability to store large amounts of data for lengthy periods of time, and do so with relatively few associated risks.

Tape has long held some notable advantages over disk-based storage, and those benefits still remain relevant. Some of those include:

• Reliability—Tape tends to store long-term data better than disk, and data recovery is easier to accomplish on a broken tape than a failed hard disk

• Security—Tape can be packed away and stored where it must be physically accessed, giving it a tangible advantage over data stored on disks that can be accessed on computer.

• Cost Savings—Tape can prove to be more economical than disk because of the price of tape cartridges, its longevity and the fact that it can be scaled incrementally (only need to purchase one tape cartridge at a time.)

Compared to the previous edition, this Buyer’s Guide puts a larger focus on hardware encryption and the benefits it brings to tape libraries. Though many may consider encryption to be a disk-based technology, it is and has been widely available for tape for some time and only serves to strengthen this medium as a consistently appropriate option for long-term data storage.

Tapes can also be dynamically partitioned, similar in concept to how disk drives can be partitioned to treat a single drive as if it were multiple disks.

Although encryption and partitioning technologies are exciting feature sets that help tape compete against disk storage, the way forward for tape likely rests, no pun intended, with REST (REpresentational State Transfer) APIs. REST API is web protocol object storage that is already familiar to most programmers, is an alternative to SOAP and its programming code can be written in a more natural language to execute operations. Most notably, it is already available in about 25% of the tape libraries included in this Buyer’s Guide.

Along with REST APIs, optional secondary storage is being offered by many of the tape vendors in this Buyer’s Guide. As many companies have already done, storing data in "the cloud” is now offered by a number of tape providers. Using this option data is concurrently written to tape and the cloud so dual copies of the data are made to provide the respective benefits that both the cloud and tape have to offer.

For the purpose of this Buyer’s Guide, all tape library models included in it support at least 24 tape cartridge slots and two tape drives. All models also support the LTO-4 tape format or later.

It is for reasons like these that DCIG produced this 2014-15 Big Data Tape Library Buyer's Guide. All the evidence supports tape remaining a viable and important storage medium for the foreseeable future. In this Buyer's Guide, DCIG accounts for tape’s historical use case

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Executive Summary (continued)

Executive Summary (continued)of backup as well as its continuing emergent role as a cost effective storage medium for archival data that is necessary in the era of Big Data.

Like other DCIG Buyer’s Guides, this DCIG 2014 Big Data Tape Library Buyer's Guide accomplishes the following objectives:

• Provides an objective, third party evaluation of tape libraries that weights, scores and ranks their features from an end user’s viewpoint

• Includes recommendations on how to best use this Buyer’s Guide

• Scores and ranks the features on each tape library based upon criteria that matter most to end users so they can quickly know which tape libraries are the most appropriate for them to use and under what conditions

• Provides data sheets for 44 tape libraries from eight different storage providers so end users can do quick comparisons of the features that are supported and not supported on each tape library

• Provides insight into which features on a tape library will result in improved availability and increased storage capacities

• Provides insight into which tape libraries are supported by popular archiving and backup software products

• Gives any organization the ability to request competitive bids from different providers of tape libraries that are apples-to-apples comparisons

We hope this Buyer’s Guide meets this intended use case in your environment.

Ben and Jerome

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How to Use this Buyer’s Guide Library Buyer’s Guide, organizations can do a better job of accomplishing that objective. In determining how to best use the information contained in this DCIG 2014–15 Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide, it • Separate the apples from the oranges. Just as is important to note that it is intended to help users in their important as doing apples-to-apples comparisons is purchase of a tape library. The purpose of this Buyer’s Guide identifying when an orange is thrown into the mix. is NOT to tell users exactly which tape library to purchase. Sometimes it is very difficult for an organization to know Rather, it is to help guide them in coming up with a list of if it is truly getting a good deal when bids come in from competitive products that have comparable features that multiple storage providers that include different tape meet their specific needs. library models. Now organizations can refer to the scores and rankings of each tape library in this guide so they It is also important to note that just because a product know when they are getting a good deal, a great deal scored higher than another, achieved the highest in a or just a so-so one. particular category or is ranked a certain way does not automatically mean that it is the right product or fit for an • Provides perspective on how models from less organization. If anything, because of the scope of the tape well known storage providers compare against library models evaluated and analyzed, it may have features established and better known brands. Anyone that are too robust for the needs of an individual department involved with tape storage at all has probably heard of or organization. HP, IBM, Quantum and Oracle (formerly StorageTek). This creates a certain built-in comfort level when buying However, what this Buyer’s Guide does is give users some products from these companies and a corresponding sense of how each tape library compares to other tape built-in resistance to buying tape libraries from companies libraries as well as offers substantial insight into what prod- that may be perceived as unknown quantities. uct offerings are available on the market. This Buyer’s Guide helps to remove some of that DCIG recommends that you use this DCIG 2014–15 Big apprehension about buying from a less well known Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide in the following seven ways: provider or even a less well known model from an established provider. Using this Buyer’s Guide organiza- • Eliminate the painstaking research associated with tions can see how these models from lesser known coming up with a short list of tape libraries that companies as well as lesser known models from meet their needs. This Buyer’s Guide ranks, scores and established providers stack up. contains data sheets for 44 different models from 8 different tape library providers. Each tape library is scored • Normalizes complex storage terminology. Every and then ranked as Best-in-Class, Recommended, computing industry has a proclivity to adopt acronyms Excellent, Good and Basic based upon its overall score. and jargon that is specific to it but the data storage On each tape library, over 80 different features were industry seems to go out of its way to not only use evaluated, weighted, scored and then ranked. Using unfamiliar terms, but refer to the same technology in this guide, an organization may only have to look at the different ways. This Buyer’s Guide sifts through the scores and features of each product in order to come up acronyms and storage jargons and terms and normalizes with a short list of products for consideration. them. This minimizes or even eliminates the need for users to try to understand all of the industry terminology. • Do apples-to-apples comparisons of tape libraries from different storage providers. In today’s crowded • Creates a standardized data sheet. The product storage market, it behooves organizations to get data sheets available from the different storage providers competitive bids from multiple storage providers. After are rarely laid out in the same way or contain the same all, when they compete, you win! But that tactic only information. Some storage providers even have data works well when organizations know that they are sheet formats that vary from model to model within their receiving competitive bids on products that are roughly own product portfolio. This Buyer’s Guide tackles this comparable. Using this DCIG 2014–15 Big Data Tape problem by creating a standard, easy to read data sheet

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for every tape library. In this way, product data sheets for • Because of the number of features analyzed, how these individual products can be printed out, laid down side by features were weighted and then how the tape library side and then the features on them quickly compared. models were scored and ranked, there was no way for DCIG to predict at the outset how an individual tape • Helps justify technical buying recommendations library model would score or rank. to business folks. Nothing is easier for those on the business side to understand than a number when doing • DCIG wants to emphasize that no storage provider was comparisons. So at the top of the data sheet for every privy to how DCIG did the scoring and ranking of the tape library model, a product score is included so the tape libraries. In every case the storage providers only business side of the house can quickly see how the found out the scores and rankings of its tape library different tape library models compare. model(s) after the analysis was complete.

Disclosures Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria Over the last few years the general trend in the US has been The DCIG 2014–15 Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide for both large and boutique analyst firms to receive some or has incorporated input from key users and tape provid- all of their revenue from storage providers. ers into establishing the criteria used to decide what tape libraries belong or did not belong in this Buyer’s Guide, DCIG is no different in that respect as it also receives but likely failed to account for all variables. While this may payment for the different services it performs for storage have resulted in a specific model not being covered in this providers. The services that DCIG provides include blog- Buyer’s Guide when it may have rightfully belonged, DCIG ging, customer validations, product reviews, executive white believes the following criteria was consistently applied as papers, special reports and white papers. we did our research and made our decisions. In the interest of being fully transparent, a number of the The focus of this survey is to evaluate tape library solutions storage providers included in this DCIG 2014–15 Big Data that meet the following requirements: Tape Library Buyer’s Guide are or have been DCIG clients. This is not to imply that they were given preferential treat- • Support a minimum of 24 tape cartridge slots. DCIG ment in the Buyer’s Guide. All it meant was that DCIG may found that those tape models that support less than 24 have had more knowledge of their tape libraries and that tape cartridge slots are better classified asautoloaders . DCIG would consider their tape libraries for inclusion in • Support at least two (2) tape drives. Like the 24 this Buyer’s Guide. tape cartridge slot requirement, DCIG found that those In that vein, there are a number of important facts to keep tape models that support only one (1) tape drive are in mind when considering the information contained in better classified asautoloaders . this DCIG 2014–15 Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide • Support LTO-4 or later technology. and its merit. • Sufficient information available to DCIG to make • No storage provider paid DCIG any fee to develop this meaningful decisions. DCIG made a good faith effort Buyer’s Guide. to reach out and obtain information from as many tape library providers as possible by providing surveys for • DCIG did not guarantee any storage provider that its tape library(ies) would be included in this Buyer’s Guide. them to complete. In a few cases tape library models still had to be excluded because of a lack of reliable data. • DCIG did not imply or guarantee that a specific tape library model would receive a good score on this Buyer’s • Shipping by October 31, 2013. A cutoff date had to Guide ahead of time. be put in place or this Buyer’s Guide would never be published. Some allowances were made for feature or • All research was based upon publicly available informa- product enhancements that were made in late 2013 that tion, information provided by the storage provider and did not adversely affect the analysis done in developing the expertise of those evaluating the information. this Buyer’s Guide.

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The 8-Step Process Used to Score website was correct and remove any ambiguities that and Rank Tape Libraries existed regarding how some of the features were implemented. To score and rank each tape library, DCIG went through an eight step process to come to the most objective 5. All vendors were given the opportunity to review conclusion possible. their data sheets before the final scores and rankings were determined. To ensure the information 1. DCIG listed out all of the features available on tape presented in this Buyer’s Guide is as up-to-date and libraries. Prior to selecting the features that were reliable as possible, DCIG provided each vendor with a included in the final evaluation in the Buyer’s Guide, copy or copies of their respective data sheets that DCIG went through and quantified what features tape appear in this Buyer’s Guide without the scores and libraries possessed. As part of this process, DCIG rankings on them. In this way they had the opportunity normalized the list of features available on a tape to validate the information and potentially correct it library such that a common name for each feature before it was publicly released. was established. 6. All of the features were scored based upon the 2. DCIG established which features would be information presented in this Buyer’s Guide. included in the Buyer’s Guide and which ones The weighting and scoring of the tape libraries found would not. One of the goals of this Buyer’s Guide was in this Buyer’s Guide was done by DCIG based on past to try to only include features on each tape library model experience with other Buyer’s Guides and input from that could be objectively and authoritatively analyzed. end users. Only features that are presented in this For example, Raw Storage Capacity (Max) was Buyer’s Guide were used to arrive at the final scores evaluated as a feature instead of Maximum Compressed and rankings for each product. Storage Capacity. While many users may take advan- 7. The features were broken down into four general tage of compression features found on tape libraries, a categories. The features included in this Buyer’s consistent objective answer cannot be determined since Guide broke down into a total of four broad categories various data types will compress differently. So Raw that are reflected on each tape library data sheet. Storage Capacity (Max) was selected as the feature These four categories are Hardware, Management, to be evaluated since an objective answer could be Software and Support. ascertained and supported. 8. The tape libraries were ranked using standard 3. Each feature had a weighting associated with it. The scoring techniques. One of the goals of this Buyer’s weightings were used to reflect if a feature was supported Guide is to establish clear lines of differentiation and potentially how well it was implemented. For example, between tape libraries with conclusions that are arrived the Power Supplies–Redundant feature is more of a Yes or at objectively. To accomplish this goal, the mean or No type of response, whereas the Backup Software average score for each classification was first deter- feature could elicit a number of different responses, with mined and then the standard deviation. the tape library able to be managed by a number of different backup software products. As such, these Using the mean of the scores from all of the tape libraries features were weighted and scored differently. from which the standard deviation was calculated, DCIG developed a ranking for each tape library model based 4. A survey that asked about all of the features upon the following in each classification: scored in this Buyer’s Guide was sent to each storage provider. In addition to using the information • Those models that were .5 or greater standard that was publicly available on each storage provider’s deviations below the mean were given the rank website, each storage provider included in this Buyer’s of Basic. Guide had the opportunity to respond to a survey sent • Those models that were .5± standard deviations to it by DCIG. This was done to both verify that the above or below the mean were ranked as Good. information DCIG found on the storage provider’s

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• Those models that were .5–1.5 standard deviations availability continues to keep tape viable. Tape particularly above the mean were ranked as Excellent. continues to shine for at-rest or cold storage of data, when data needs to be stored but either not accessed or is • Those models that were greater than 1.5 accessed very infrequently. DCIG has identified a number of standard deviations above the mean were ranked features that are being implemented by vendors to continue as Recommended. tape’s reign as king of the archive. • The model with the highest score was given the designation of Best-in-Class. The Rise of LTO-6 • It is for these reasons that the number of models Tape manufacturers have made methodical improvements that achieved a certain ranking in each classification to both tape drives and tape cartridges. For instance, the varied. open standard LTO (Linear Tape-Open) format has roughly doubled its raw capacity every two to three years since it was initially released in 2000. The latest incarnation, LTO-6, DCIG Comments & Thoughts began shipping in late 2012 and early 2013 and has a raw The Big Data Tape Library Category as a Whole capacity of 2.5 TB. LTO has become ubiquitous enough that once again support for LTO is a requirement for tape In 1951 the US Census Bureau bought eight Remington libraries’ inclusion in the DCIG 2014–15 Big Data Tape Rand UNISERVO tape drives to replace punch cards on Library Buyer’s Guide. its UNIVAC I computer system ushering in the tape age.1 For a good portion of the general public, the tape drive In the DCIG 2012 Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide, was the computer. research on included models found limited deployment of LTO-5. This lacking support for LTO-5, however, is If news footage of NASA was shown, there were rooms full certainly not the case with LTO-6. The jump from the 800 of tape drives on display. Movies from the era that portrayed GB capacity of LTO-4 to 2.5 TB in LTO-6 was a significant computers always had lots of blinking lights and a tape drive increase in capacity and vendors unable to make the jump that moved so it was known to be “working.” Tape, it could would have likely perished. A recent market survey of tape be said, was cool. Even as late as the early 1980s, HDDs cartridge sales illustrates the mass movement towards were still rare and tape was the most predominant means LTO’s newest iteration by showing a move away from of long term storage. LTO-4 to LTO-5 and LTO-6.2 With a history like this it is not surprising that for many stor- The arrival of LTO-6 has made several features standard on age engineers and especially those who are young associate the tape libraries surveyed. Hardware encryption and parti- the tape storage market as being “old tech”—stale, overly tioning are possibly the most important of these standard- conservative, and well, just not cool. To a certain extent this ized features. Hardware encryption is also seen as extremely reputation is deserved, and for good reason. Tape just gets important in tape’s role of at-rest storage. The ability to the job done and has done so for over sixty years now. The partition tapes is also now supported by nearly all models tape industry is also conservative by nature because its job surveyed based on its requirements for licensing of LTO-5. for those sixty years has been to never lose data.

It should be noted that one vendor, Qualstar, has left the The Evolving Role of Tape tape library market since the DCIG 2012 Big Data Tape Tape providers have begun to differentiate themselves in Library Buyer’s Guide was realeased. However, the loss of how they migrate data between disk, tape, and even the one vendor does not reflect upon the overall state of the cloud. The additional option of data migration that tape current market. Those who believe tape is dead or try to library providers include is in part based on the increasing insinuate such a position are sorely mistaken. That same presence of disk-based appliances and public and private conservative attention to standards and long term data storage clouds.

1. Maleval, Jean-Jacques. "First Computer Tape Drive Originated From Remington Rand." StorageNewsletter. Micro-Journal, 31 May 2012. Web. http://www.storagenewsletter. com/rubriques/tapes/remington-rand-uniservo-ibm726/. 2. Santa Clara Consulting Group. "WW Tape Cartridge Sales at $142 Million in 3Q13 – Santa Clara Consulting Group." StorageNewsletter. Micro-Journal, 2 Dec. 2013. Web. http://www.storagenewsletter.com/rubriques/market-reportsresearch/ww-tape-cartridge-sales-at-142-million-in-3q13-santa-clara-consulting-group/.

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An early step in tape vendors offering more options was that tape library vendors are making improvements to their tracked in the 2012 Buyer’s Guide. LTFS (Linear Tape product lines to meet new trends in the storage industry. File System) is intended to make it easier to use tape by making the tape library appear as a normal file system that DCIG Observations & Recommendations can read and write files like any familiar disk drive based file system. While the number of models supporting LTFS Best-in-Class and increased from about 50% in the 2012 Buyer’s Guide to Recommended Rankings 75% in this year’s edition, LTFS has not achieved the mind share level of adoption that some expected it to capture. Observations REST APIs and Secondary Cloud Storage The Oracle StorageTek SL8500 ranked highest of the models evaluated in the DCIG 2014–15 Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s A more promising methodology is the use of REST APIs to Guide, earning the Best-In-Class ranking. Coming in only a perform object-based storage operations on tape libraries. fractional point behind was the lone model that earned DCIG’s REST (REpresentational State Transfer) APIs (Application Recommended ranking: the Spectra Logic T-Finity. Programming Interfaces) take advantage of a subset of the HTTP (web) protocol to provide programmers a standard- In general, both of the top-scoring libraries: ized method of storing objects without needing to know the underlying storage medium. • Scale to several hundred petabytes of data • Scale to hundreds of drives and over one-hundred REST APIs have become particularly popular with cloud thousand cartridges storage services such as Amazon, which uses them for its S3 platform. Two vendors featured this year, Spectra Logic • Support the majority of backup and archive software and Oracle, report that they support using the cloud for packages tracked in this Guide secondary storage while HP plans to add this feature to its • Support 10Gb Ethernet tape library models in 2014. When cloud is used for secondary storage, data is written both to tape and to a public or • Support the REST APIs private cloud for additional redundancy and ease of use. • Offer tape drive virtualization The usage of both REST APIs and the offering of cloud stor- Both models are truly “Big Data” offerings engineered age as a secondary source can be expected to increase in to handle tremendous volumes of data. The Oracle popularity and effectiveness over the next several years. StorageTek SL8500 scales to over 850 PB of raw (uncom- The Growing Scale of Tape Libraries pressed) data, while the Spectra Logic T-Finity can scale to 1 XB (exabyte) of raw data. Assuming the LTO-6 standard One other change in this 2014–15 Buyer’s Guide is that the of 2.5:1 compression, these installations can both handle in number of large-scale libraries with more than 64 drives excess of a staggering 2 XB of compressed data. and/or 1000 cartridge slots grew by an amount significant enough to warrant inclusion in scoring. In the DCIG 2012 Necessarily, to handle all that data these models support Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide, models that exceeded 10Gb Ethernet and Fibre Channel (FC) for storage network the above criteria did not receive additional points. However, connectivity. Both models also include high availability (HA) in 2014 over 20% of models evaluated exceeded both of features such as redundant robotics, redundant fan and these criteria. Such a high concentration of tape libraries power supplies, and “Active-Active” I/O controllers. Also meeting the criteria forced a reevaluation of this Buyer’s supported are advanced features such as REST object Guide’s scoring methodology. The Guide now favors raw storage and tape drive virtualization. capacity over cartridge slot counts and no longer imposes a ceiling on the number of supported drives. The Oracle StorageTek SL8500A is a new model in this year’s Buyer’s Guide scoring well across all categories, placing first Tape is often the right choice for long-term data storage for in Software and second in both Hardware and Management. many enterprise organizations and all indications support Oracle’s support for advanced features such as REST, tape

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drive virtualization, and 10Gb Ethernet show a commitment IBM’s TS3500 took the upper end of the Excellent ranking to continually pushing its flagship tape storage library forward. due to its top finish in the Hardware category and anExcellent ranking in Software. Its strong finish in Hardware was based The Spectra Logic T-Finity missed defending its DCIG 2012 on its ability to scale to 900 PB of raw data, the inclusion Big Data Tape Library Best-In-Class ranking by a fraction of redundant controllers and robotics, and a wide range of of a point. The addition of LTO-6 and more pass-through tape formats, many of which are proprietary. However, its capacity allowed the T-Finity to scale to the largest raw Management scores kept it out of the top overall rankings. capacity, over 1 XB, of any of the models evaluated. Spectra Logic was also the only vendor in this survey to support The Spectra Logic T series and HP ESL G3 series anchor secondary cloud storage across all of its models. the Excellent group with top finishes in the Management and Software categories. Both supported a wide range of Recommendations software packages and supported advanced features such Organizations looking for cost-effective, flexible storage as redundant robotics and tape drive virtualization. options in the hundreds of petabytes and beyond should In general, however, Spectra Logic models scored higher consider tape libraries that overall ranked Recommended than HP StoreEver ESL G3 models of similar capacity. or higher. When properly managed, the size and perfor- Spectra’s higher scores were in large part due to their mance of these tape libraries can provide near disk-like support for REST APIs and across the board support for performance using non-traditional interfaces such as LTFS secondary cloud storage. and REST APIs, while still supporting legacy tape imple- mentations. By centralizing management of such large Rounding out the group is the HP StoreEver MSL6480. installations, enterprises can further drive down costs of The MSL6480 outscored other HP models due to its support long-term archives and backup data stores. for advanced features such as tape virtualization and dynamic partitioning. Excellent Ranking Recommendations Organizations looking for models with a full range of Observations enterprise management features, but with smaller capacity Big Data Tape Libraries ranked as Excellent generally shared needs, should look to models ranked Excellent. With a wide the following characteristics: range of capacities, starting as small as 125 TB and scaling • Rank Excellent or above in both Management and Software all the way up to 900 PB, this group can fit most any data set while providing top notch management and software. • Include either redundant controllers or robotics, but not both

• Support most archival and backup software Good Ranking

• Offer tape drive virtualization support Observations • Offer LTFS support Big Data Tape Libraries ranked as Good in general shared the following characteristics: • Support the ability to scale by allowing multiple appliances to act as one • Lack more advanced features like tape drive virtualization and REST APIs This ranking included two individual models and two product families: • Lack high availability features such as redundant controllers • IBM TS3500 • Capacities ranged from 100s of TB up to 1 PB • Spectra Logic T series • Rank Good or Excellent in Management • HP StoreEver ESL G3 series • Rank Good or Basic in Software • HP StoreEver MSL6480

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Recommendations Big Data Tape Libraries that scored as Good are primarily best suited for small to mid-sized enterprises that require reliable tape capacity, but are willing to exchange advanced feature functionality for a lower purchase price.

There are now several models in this category that can provide capacities over 1 PB. Organizations who need this level of capacity and are willing to forgo some of the more advanced software features should consider the following models:

• Dell PowerVault ML6030 (1 PB)

• IBM TS3310 (1 PB)

• Quantum Scalar i6000 (50 PB)

• Quantum Scalar i500 (1 PB)

Basic Ranking

Observations Big Data Tape Libraries ranked as Basic generally shared the following characteristics:

• Capacities in the mid to low 100s of terabytes

• Rank Good or Basic in Hardware

• Rank Basic in Management

• Rank Basic in Software

Recommendations Tape libraries ranked as Basic are primarily suited for organizations that are cost conscious. They generally have a dataset in the low hundreds of terabytes or less and do not require advanced Management or Software features. That said, an outlier in this category is the Overland Storage NEO 8000e with a capacity of 2.5 PB, well outpacing most of the other models in the Basic ranking. The prototypi- cal model in this category is a 24-slot library that supports either one or two drives.

Both Dell and Tandberg Data deserve recognition in this category for having Hardware that scored well despite lower Management and Software rankings.

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BIG DATA TAPE LIBRARY SCORES AND RANKINGS

The scores and rankings for the big data tape libraries contain the following information:

• A chart that includes the scores and rankings for all of the products • The mean and the standard deviation that were used to establish how each big data tape library was ranked • A summary of the primary findings

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OVERALL SCORES AND RANKINGS

BIG DATA TAPE LIBRARY SCORE RANKING

1. Oracle StorageTek SL8500 72.47 BEST-IN-CLASS

2. Spectra Logic T-Finity 72.08 Recommended

3. IBM TS3500 66.40 Excellent

4. Oracle StorageTek SL3000 66.24 Excellent

5. Spectra Logic T950 66.03 Excellent

6. HP StoreEver ESL G3 5000 slot 65.65 Excellent

7. HP StoreEver ESL G3 3000 slot 65.13 Excellent

8. HP StoreEver ESL G3 1500 slot 63.71 Excellent

9. Oracle StorageTek SL150 62.63 Excellent

10. Spectra Logic T680 62.25 Excellent

11. HP StoreEver ESL G3 700 slot 61.66 Excellent

12. Spectra Logic T380 61.32 Excellent

13. Spectra Logic T120 61.10 Excellent

14. Spectra Logic T50e 59.70 Excellent

15. Spectra Logic T200 59.36 Excellent

16. HP StoreEver ESL G3 300 slot 59.26 Excellent

17. HP StoreEver ESL G3 100 slot 57.24 Excellent

18. HP StoreEver MSL6480 56.57 Good

19. Quantum Scalar i6000 54.27 Good

20. Dell PowerVault ML6030 49.69 Good

21. IBM TS3310 49.52 Good

22. HP StoreEver MSL4048 49.03 Good

23. HP StoreEver MSL2024 48.74 Good

24. Dell PowerVault ML6020 48.20 Good

25. Quantum Scalar i500 46.94 Good

26. Dell PowerVault TL4000 43.28 Good

27. Quantum Scalar i80 42.41 Basic

28. Dell PowerVault TL2000 42.30 Basic

29. IBM TS3200 42.13 Basic

30. Dell PowerVault ML6010 41.67 Basic

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OVERALL SCORES AND RANKINGS (continued)

BIG DATA TAPE LIBRARY SCORE RANKING

31. IBM TS3100 41.84 Basic

32. Quantum Scalar i40 39.95 Basic

33. Overland Storage NEO 8000e 38.16 Basic

34. Tandberg Data StorageLibrary T160+ 34.49 Basic

35. Tandberg Data StorageLibrary T120+ 34.02 Basic

36. Tandberg Data StorageLibrary T80+ 33.55 Basic

37. Tandberg Data StorageLibrary T40+ 33.06 Basic

38. Overland Storage NEO 4000e 32.01 Basic

39. Overland Storage NEO 2000e 32.01 Basic

40. Overland Storage NEO 400s 25.13 Basic

41. Overland Storage NEO 200s 24.84 Basic

42. Tandberg Data StorageLibrary T24 23.70 Basic

Total Number of Products 42

Rankings Highest Score 72.47 Recommended 70.43 – 72.47 Lowest Score 23.70 Excellent 56.65 – 70.42 Average (Mean) 49.75 Good 42.86 – 56.64 Standard Deviation 13.78 Basic 23.70 – 42.85

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BIG DATA TAPE LIBRARY MODELS

DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 41.67 10.82 9.50 9.35 12.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 1 / 41 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 2 8 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 102.5 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Concurrent Drive Formats SNMP Support Dynamic Partitioning (Manage / Monitor) / Hot Swap Drives Management Methods Tape Management 3 Software Included (Total #) Half-Height Drives ENCRYPTION Email Notifications Customer Replaceable Drives

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

AES-256 Fans (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Key Management Software SUPPORT Power Supplies (Supported / Included) / (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Published Mean Time N/A to Failure (MTTF) LTFS Redundant Robotics (Client / Tape Library) / Hardware Warranty 3 Years

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 6 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 48.20 17.62 7.78 10.30 12.50 GOOD GOOD BASIC GOOD RECOMMENDED2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 1 / 133 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 6 7 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 332.5 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 18 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 49.69 18.11 8.78 10.30 12.50 GOOD GOOD BASIC GOOD RECOMMENDED2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 1 / 225 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 10 7 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 1 PB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

AES-256 Fans (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Key Management Software SUPPORT Power Supplies (Supported / Included) / / Published Mean Time (Redundant / Hot Swap) N/A to Failure (MTTF) LTFS Redundant Robotics (Client / Tape Library) / Hardware Warranty 3 Years

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 30 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 42.30 13.25 8.50 8.05 12.50 BASIC GOOD BASIC GOOD RECOMMENDED2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 1 / 24 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 2 6 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 60 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Concurrent Drive Formats SNMP Support Dynamic Partitioning (Manage / Monitor) / Hot Swap Drives Management Methods Tape Management 2 Software Included (Total #) Half-Height Drives ENCRYPTION Email Notifications Customer Replaceable Drives

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 1 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 43.28 13.79 8.64 8.35 12.50 GOOD GOOD BASIC GOOD RECOMMENDED2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 1 / 48 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 4 8 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 120 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

AES-256 Fans (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Key Management Software SUPPORT Power Supplies (Supported / Included) / (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Published Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) LTFS Redundant Robotics (Client / Tape Library) / Hardware Warranty 3 Years

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 3 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 57.24 14.34 18.50 15.40 9.00 EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 102 / 102 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 12 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 255 TB Licensing Included 6 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Concurrent Drive Formats SNMP Support Dynamic Partitioning (Manage / Monitor) / Hot Swap Drives Management Methods Tape Management 5 Software Included (Total #) Half-Height Drives ENCRYPTION Email Notifications Customer Replaceable Drives

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

AES-256 Fans (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Key Management Software SUPPORT Power Supplies (Supported / Included) / / Published Mean Time (Redundant / Hot Swap) 250,000 Hours to Failure (MTTF) LTFS Redundant Robotics (Client / Tape Library) / Hardware Warranty 1 Year

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 24 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 59.26 16.36 18.50 15.40 9.00 EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 300 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 12 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 750 TB Licensing Included 6 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

AES-256 Fans (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Key Management Software SUPPORT Power Supplies (Supported / Included) / (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Published Mean Time 250,000 Hours to Failure (MTTF) LTFS Redundant Robotics (Client / Tape Library) / Hardware Warranty 1 Year

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 61.66 18.76 18.50 15.40 9.00 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 700 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 24 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 1.75 PB Licensing Included 6 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 96 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 63.71 20.81 18.50 15.40 9.00 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 1,500 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 96 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 3.75 PB Licensing Included 5 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 240 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 65.13 22.23 18.50 15.40 9.00 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 3,000 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 96 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 7.5 PB Licensing Included 6 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 528 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 65.65 22.75 18.50 15.40 9.00 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT RECOMMENDED GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 12,006 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 96 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 30 PB Licensing Included 6 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 48.74 14.95 12.14 12.65 9.00 GOOD GOOD BASIC EXCELLENT GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 24 / 24 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 2 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 60 TB Licensing Included 6 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

AES-256 Fans (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Key Management Software SUPPORT Power Supplies (Supported / Included) / (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Published Mean Time 200,000 Hours to Failure (MTTF) LTFS Redundant Robotics (Client / Tape Library) / Hardware Warranty 1 Year

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 12 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 49.03 15.24 12.14 12.65 9.00 GOOD GOOD BASIC EXCELLENT GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 48 / 48 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 2 / 4 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 120 TB Licensing Included 6 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

AES-256 Fans (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Key Management Software SUPPORT Power Supplies (Supported / Included) / (Redundant / Hot Swap) / Published Mean Time 100,000 Hours to Failure (MTTF) LTFS Redundant Robotics (Client / Tape Library) / Hardware Warranty 1 Year

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 56.57 16.81 18.11 12.65 9.00 GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 80 / 560 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 42 10 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 1.4 PB Licensing Included 6 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 4 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 80 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 41.48 10.70 16.64 3.50 11.00 BASIC BASIC GOOD BASIC EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 24 / 24 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 2 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 60 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 42.13 10.99 16.64 3.50 11.00 BASIC BASIC GOOD BASIC EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 48 / 48 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 4 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 120 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 49.52 16.27 17.50 4.75 11.00 GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT BASIC EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 41 / 409 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 16 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 1 PB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 48 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 66.40 29.91 20.24 5.25 11.00 EXCELLENT BEST-IN-CLASS EXCELLENT BASIC EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 12 / 300,000 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 2,880 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 900 PB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 10 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Concurrent Drive Formats SNMP Support Dynamic Partitioning (Manage / Monitor) / Hot Swap Drives Management Methods Tape Management 6 Software Included (Total #) Half-Height Drives ENCRYPTION Email Notifications Customer Replaceable Drives

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 224 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 62.63 15.06 21.17 14.40 12.00 EXCELLENT GOOD RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 1 / 300 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 20 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 750 TB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 2 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 5 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 4 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 66.24 23.23 20.01 11.00 12.00 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 200 / 5,925 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 56 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 50 PB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 6 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 234 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 72.47 28.46 21.26 10.75 12.00 BEST-IN-CLASS RECOMMENDED BEST-IN-CLASS GOOD EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 1,448 / 100,880 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 640 8 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 857 PB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 10 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 78 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 24.84 5.70 9.14 3.00 7.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 24 / 24 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 2 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 60 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 12 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 25.13 5.99 9.14 3.00 7.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 48 / 48 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 4 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 120 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 32.01 10.87 11.14 3.00 7.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 30 / 240 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 16 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 600 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 15 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 32.01 10.87 11.14 3.00 7.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 60 / 240 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 4 / 16 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 600 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 38.16 17.02 11.14 3.00 7.00 BASIC GOOD BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 1000 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 24 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 2.5 PB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Concurrent Drive Formats SNMP Support Dynamic Partitioning (Manage / Monitor) / Hot Swap Drives Management Methods Tape Management 1 Software Included (Total #) Half-Height Drives ENCRYPTION Email Notifications Customer Replaceable Drives

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 80 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 39.95 7.20 15.50 12.25 5.00 BASIC BASIC GOOD EXCELLENT BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 25 / 40 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 2 9 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 100 TB Licensing Included 8 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 5 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 20 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 42.41 9.66 15.50 12.25 5.00 BASIC BASIC GOOD EXCELLENT BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 50 / 80 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 5 9 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 200 TB Licensing Included 8 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 5 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 46.94 13.69 15.50 12.75 5.00 GOOD GOOD GOOD EXCELLENT BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 41 / 409 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 18 9 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 1 PB Licensing Included 8 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 5 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 54 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 54.27 21.02 15.50 12.75 5.00 GOOD EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 12,006 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 192 9 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 30 PB Licensing Included 8 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 5 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 1,104 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 59.70 14.81 20.14 13.75 11.00 EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 10 / 50 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 4 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 125 TB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 1 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 24 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 61.10 15.91 20.28 14.00 11.00 EXCELLENT GOOD EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 30 / 120 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 10 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 300 TB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 1 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 8 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 59.36 13.36 21.00 14.00 11.00 EXCELLENT GOOD RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 50 /200 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 8 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 500 TB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 1 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 10 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 1 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 61.32 15.32 21.00 14.00 11.00 EXCELLENT GOOD RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 50 / 380 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 12 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 950 TB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 1 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 10 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 3 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 62.25 16.25 21.00 14.00 11.00 EXCELLENT GOOD RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 50 / 670 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 12 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 1.68 PB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 1 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 20 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 66.03 21.03 20.00 14.00 11.00 EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 10,020 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 2 / 120 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 25.1 PB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 1 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 160 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 72.08 27.08 20.00 14.00 11.00 RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED EXCELLENT EXCELLENT EXCELLENT2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 100 / 400,800 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 2 / 960 11 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 1 XB Licensing Included 9 (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 4 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning 1 (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 300 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 3 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract 24x7x365 SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 23.70 8.70 6.00 4.00 5.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 12 / 24 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 2 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 60 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 12 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 33.06 12.92 11.14 4.00 5.00 BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 24 / 40 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 4 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 100 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 12 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 33.55 13.41 11.14 4.00 5.00 BASIC GOOD BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 77 / 77 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 8 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 192.5 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 12 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 34.02 13.88 11.14 4.00 5.00 BASIC GOOD BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 114 / 114 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 12 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 285 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 12 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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DCIG Scores and Rankings

OVERALL SCORE Hardware Software Management Support 34.49 14.35 11.14 4.00 5.00 BASIC GOOD BASIC BASIC BASIC2013-14

HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Cartridge Slots 151 / 151 PARTITIONING 3RD PARTY PACKAGES SUPPORTED (Min / Max)

Tape Drives Supported Backup 1 / 16 (Min / Max) (Hard / Soft) / (Total #)

Raw Storage Capacity Archive 377.5 TB Licensing Included (Max) (Total #)

Tape Drive Formats 3 Data Center Management (Total #) Partition Spanning (Total #)

Hardware Encryption Syslog Redundant Controllers

Rack Mountable REST API Contract Support Availability 24×7×365 Cartridge Import / Export 12 (Max) Secondary Cloud Storage Contract Support Methods 2 (Total #) Fibre Channel / SAS / Tape Drive Virtualization Non-Contract Business Day SCSI Support Availability Lifecycle Management Software Non-Contract Support Methods Ethernet 2 (1Gb / 10Gb) / (Total #) Tape Cartridge iSCSI Wear Monitoring

Tape Drive RoHS Compliant Lifecycle Monitoring

Supported Unsupported

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Product Rankings Dashboard

OVERALL SCORE HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT OVERALL SCORE HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT

Dell PowerVault ML6010 HP StoreEver ESL G3 700-Slot Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Dell PowerVault ML6020 HP StoreEver ESL G3 1500-Slot Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Dell PowerVault ML6030 HP StoreEver ESL G3 3000-Slot Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Dell PowerVault TL2000 HP StoreEver ESL G3 5000-Slot Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Dell PowerVault TL4000 HP StoreEver MSL2024 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

HP StoreEver ESL G3 100-Slot HP StoreEver MSL4048 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

HP StoreEver ESL G3 300-Slot HP StoreEver MSL6480 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

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Product Rankings Dashboard (continued)

OVERALL SCORE HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT OVERALL SCORE HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT

IBM TS3100 Overland Storage NEO 200s Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

IBM TS3200 Overland Storage NEO 400s Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

IBM TS3310 Overland Storage NEO 2000e Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

IBM TS3500 Overland Storage NEO 4000e Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Oracle StorageTek SL150 Overland Storage NEO 8000e Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Oracle StorageTek SL3000 Quantum Scaler i40 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Oracle StorageTek SL8500 Quantum Scalar i80 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

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Product Rankings Dashboard (continued)

OVERALL SCORE HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT OVERALL SCORE HARDWARE SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT SUPPORT

Quantum Scalar i500 Spectra Logic T950 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Quantum Scalar i6000 Spectra Logic T-Finity Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Spectra Logic T50e Tandberg Data Storage Library T24 Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Spectra Logic T120 Tandberg Data Storage Library T40+ Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Spectra Logic T200 Tandberg Data Storage Library T80+ Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Spectra Logic T380 Tandberg Data Storage Library T120+ Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

Spectra Logic T680 Tandberg Data Storage Library T160+ Best-In-Class Recommended Excellent Good Basic

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APPENDICES

Appendix A: Definitions, Explanations and Terminology

Appendix B: Storage Provider Contact Information

Appendix C: Author Contact Information

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Appendix A—Definitions, Explanations and Terminology

Definitions, Explanations and Terminology This section contains brief definitions and/or explanations of the terms used on the data sheets for each product found in the DCIG 2014–15 Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide. These terms are in the same order as they appear on the individual tape library data sheets.

Hardware Cartridge Slots (Min/Max) Redundant Controllers The minimum and maximum number of tape cartridges Indicates whether or not the tape library has redundant held by the tape library in its largest configuration. controllers.

Tape Drives (Min/Max) Fans (Redundant/Hot Swap) The minimum and maximum number of tape drives that Indicates whether or not the tape library has redundant the tape library may be configured to hold. fans, and whether or not those fans may be replaced while the tape library remains online and in production. Raw Storage Capacity (Max) The maximum raw storage capacity of each tape library Power Supplies (Redundant/Hot Swap) based upon the highest capacity tape cartridge format Indicates whether or not the tape library has redundant it can hold. power supplies, and also if the power supplies may be replaced while the tape library remains on line and Drive Formats (Total #) in production. The total number of the tape drive formats that may be included in the tape library to include 3840, 3940, DLT, Redundant Robotics SDLT, LTO, and T10000. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Indicates whether or not the tape library has redundant Guide (IBG) for a detailed list of supported options for any robotics that can place and remove tape cartridges from particular tape library. within a tape library.

Concurrent Drive Formats Rack Mountable The tape library may support at least two tape drive Indicates whether or not the tape library may be mounted formats of different tape technologies (e.g. DLT and in an industry standard 19" rack. LTO; or 3940 and LTO.) Tape libraries that concurrently support different LTO technologies (for example LTO-4 Cartridge Import/Export (Max) and LTO-5) would display an ‘X’ and reflect this feature Indicates the maximum number of tape cartridges that may as unsupported. be loaded into or unloaded from a tape library at one time.

Hot Swap Drives Fibre Channel/SAS A check mark indicates that a tape drive may be swapped Indicates the tape library supports Fibre Channel and/or out without having to take the tape library offline to do so. Serial-Attached SCSI.

Half-Height Drives SCSI Indicates whether or not the tape library supports half- Indicates whether or not the tape library supports Small height tape drives. Computer System Interface (SCSI).

Customer Replaceable Drives Ethernet (1Gb/10Gb) A check mark indicates that a customer may optionally Indicates the maximum number of Ethernet storage replace a tape drive. A customer may still put in place networking ports supported. All models surveyed in this a support contract to have a vendor or third party Guide included at least 10/100 Ethernet. perform this task.

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iSCSI Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of supported Indicates whether or not the tape library supports Internet access encryption methods for any particular tape library. Small Computer System Interface. Internet Small Computer • Key Management Software (Supported/ System Interface (iSCSI) is a block-based protocol for running Included)—Indicates whether or not the tape library SCSI commands over Internet Protocol (IP) on Ethernet. includes the necessary software to store, organize and otherwise manage encryption keys for the tape library’s Library-to-Library Pass Through supported encryption methods. Indicates whether or not the tape library may physically pass tape cartridges from one tape library to another LTFS (Client/Tape Library) without human intervention. Indicates if the tape library provider offers client Linear Term File System (LTFS) software for LTO tape media. The LTFS RoHS Compliant client software enables data to be read from and written to Indicates whether or not the tape library is compliant with LTO tape media in a manner that is recognizable by the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive. modern operating systems in a manner that is similar to how operating systems read from and write to disk.

Software Indicates if the tape library provider offers LTFS software Partitioning that can access tapes that are housed by the tape Indicates whether or not the tape library may be partitioned library but may not be in the tape library tape drive at into different logical tape libraries and how that partitioning the time of the request for the data. This LTFS software may occur. Tape partitioning may be either Hard or Soft. will send a request to the tape library to retrieve the Some tape libraries support both Hard and Soft partitioning. correct tape cartridge with the requested data from within the tape library. • Supported (Hard/Soft)—This indicates whether the tape library supports Hard and/or Soft partitioning. REST API • Licensing Included—This indicates if the tape library REST (REpresentational State Transfer) APIs (Application includes the partition license for no extra cost. Programming Interfaces) are based on HTTP protocol and its vocabulary of operations and request methods. • Partition Spanning—This indicates if the tape library REST emphasizes that resources can be accessed using may span partitions, allowing the capacity of multiple a URL as the parameter for operations, similar in theory storage units to be combined for larger storage needs. to how a web browser makes a request to a URL an • Dynamic Partitioning—This feature indicates if a tape receives a response. drive that is assigned to one partition in a tape library may be dynamically reallocated to another partition on that Secondary Cloud Storage same library. This may be done during periods of heavy Indicates if the tape library model supports cloud storage workloads on a particular partition. as an available secondary storage option so data can be written to cloud storage as well as to the tape appliance. Tape Management Software Included Indicates whether or not tape management software is Tape Drive Virtualization included at no extra cost. Tape Drive Virtualization is a storage technology that allows for data to be saved as if it is being saved to tape with the Encryption same benefits, but it may actually be stored on disk instead. Indicates if the tape library can encrypt data stored on tape cartridges and what method it used to encrypt data Lifecycle Management Software stored on tape. Indicates if the tape library includes software for managing the lifecycle of data on tape cartridges by moving data to • Hardware Encryption—Indicates whether or not the other tape cartridges when a particular tape cartridge starts tape library features hardware encryption. to report too many errors. Some software also detects • AES-256—AES-256 is a security algorithm initially failing tape drives and takes them offline when excessive introduced by the U.S. Government. See the DCIG errors are reported.

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Tape Cartridge Wear Monitoring Syslog Indicates if the tape library monitors and reports on the A check mark indicates if the tape library supports wear of individual tape cartridges. the Syslog protocol for computer message logging. An X signifies that DCIG was unable to obtain informa- Tape Drive Lifecycle Monitoring tion on software package support or that this feature Indicates if the tape library monitors and reports on the is not supported. wear of individual tape drives. Support Management Published Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) 3rd Party Software Packages Supported Indicates whether or not the model’s MTTF has been • Backup (Total #)—The total number of backup published by the manufacturer. If publicly published or software packages that the vendor indicated they available, the stated number is included here. support. An X signifies that DCIG was unable to obtain information on software package support or that none Hardware Warranty are supported. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide Indicates the standard length of the hardware warranty (IBG) for a list of supported options for any particular available for the tape library. tape library. Contract Support Availability • Archive (Total #)—The total number of archive software Indicates the support availability offered in the manufac- packages that the vendor indicated they support. An X turer’s contract. signifies that DCIG was unable to obtain information on software package support or that none are supported. Contract Support Methods (Total #) See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of Indicates the total number of support methods available supported options for any particular tape library. included with the contract. See the DCIG Interactive • Data Center Operations Management (Total #)— Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of supported options for The total number of data center operations management any particular tape library. software packages that the vendor indicated they supported. An X signifies that DCIG was unable to obtain Non-Contract Support Availability information on software package support. See the DCIG Indicates the availability of support if the product is not Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of supported covered by a support contract. options for any particular tape library. Non-Contract Support Methods (Total #) SNMP Support (Manage/Monitor) Indicates the total number of support methods available Indicates whether or not the Simple Network Management outside of a support contract. See the DCIG Interactive Protocol (SNMP) is supported by the tape library. Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of supported options for any Management indicates the ability to modify the configura- particular tape library. tion of the device. Monitor indicates the ability to read performance and status information from the device.

Management Methods (Total #) The total number of management methods that the vendor indicated they support. Management methods include front panel access, SSH, command line and web interfaces. See the DCIG Interactive Buyer’s Guide (IBG) for a list of supported options for any particular tape library.

Email Notifications Indicates whether or not email alerts may be sent to the provider by the tape library.

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Appendix B—Storage Provider Contact Information

Storage Provider Contact Information

Dell Inc Quantum Corporation 1 Dell Way 1650 Technology Drive, Suite 700 Round Rock, TX 78682 San Jose, CA 95110-1382 +1.800.247.2097, Press 2 +1.800.677.9268 www.dell.com Email: [email protected] www.quantum.com HP 3000 Hanover Street Spectra Logic Corporation Palo Alto, CA 94304 6285 Lookout Road +1.800.888.0262 Boulder, CO 80301-3580 Email: [email protected] +1.800.833.1132 www.hp.com Email: [email protected] www.spectralogic.com IBM 1 New Orchard Road Tandberg Data GmbH Armonk, NY 10504 Feldstr. 81 +1.800.IBM.4YOU 44141 Dortmund www.ibm.com Germany +49 (0) 231 5436 - 0 Oracle Corporation www.tandbergdata.com/us/ 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood City, CA 94065 +1.303.272.9480 www.oracle.com/storage

Overland Storage, Inc. 4820 Overland Avenue San Diego, CA 92123 +1.888.343.7627 Email: [email protected] www.overlandstorage.com

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Appendix C—Author Contact Information

Author Contact Information

DCIG, LLC 7511 Madison Street Omaha, NE 68127 +1.402.884.9594

CONTACT Ben Maas [email protected]

Jerome Wendt [email protected]

WEBSITE www.dcig.com