IBM System Storage
Marketing
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1,600
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1,200
1,000
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600
400
200
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Storage requirements growing 20-40% per year
2005
Medical imaging, Laptops, smart meters, multi-player games ,
Satellite images, GPS, ATMs, Scanners,
Sensors, Digital radio, DLP theaters,
Peer-to-peer, Email, Instant messaging, Videoconferencing,
CAD/CAM, Toys, Industrial machines, Security systems, Appliances
2006 2007 2008
Camera phones, VoIP,
2009
MP3 players,
Digital cameras,
2010
2011
Source:: Semantics, “Linked Data” guidelines, 2006.
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 Digital workflow transformation
– Rich media rapidly growing
– Production workflows from video tape-based to file- based media
 Access & asset management profiles of rich media are significantly different from traditional business data
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Rich media is primarily stored for monetization purposes
• Production archives and asset protection
• Repurposing content and distribution
• Rich media is typically archived for a longer period of time than other data
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 Very Large
– Large base of existing content to be digitized + continuous growth
– Accessible by the media asset workflow tools
– Scalability
 Longer term
– 10 - 50+ years
 Self-describing data containers required
– Out of system content management
– Portability – need to distribute content to many users
– Protection from loss of archive due to corruption/loss of central meta-data/index
 Large initial investment & long term support:
– Increases the End-End cost of the solution
• $/GB, watt/GB, GB/sq. ft, hardware $, software $
 Proprietary solutions and vendor lock-in
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 Digital Supply Chain
– Customer centric rather than media centric
– Increases agility to improve response time
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Digital storage eliminates long-term degradation associated with analog translation and human contact with the media
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Creates a smarter and more optimized Digital Workflow
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Estimated Total Storage Revenue 2010-2015
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$6,200
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3000
2000
1000
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$3,300
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Media Industry
$M
• 10X increase in digital storage capacity
• 12X increase in storage shipments
(4,000PB to 47,000PB)
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A specification in the LTO Generation 5 format (LTO-5) defining a dual-partition linear tape
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Invented, proposed by IBM and adopted by the LTO consortium for Generation 5 LTO.
 IBM announced file system software called “Single Drive Edition” on April 2010 which utilizes the LTFS format
 IBM has made the “Single drive Edition” available for download at no cost
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LTFS Index (XML)
File
File
Index Partition
File
Guard Wraps
File
Data Partition
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File bodies
File system info.
File
Attributes
Directory
Structure
LTO5
Cartridge
LTFS installed PC
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File system available with standalone LTO-5 tape drives
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File access on a LTO-5 tape similar to hard disk,
CD/DVD-R disc or USB memory
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File access on Explorer or drag & drop on desktop.
– File Open, Write, Read, Append, Delete and Close from an application
 Faster Access, Easy Exchange of Data across
Platforms, Self-Describing Archives
Drag & Drop
LTFS
Exchangeable Directory Display
PC
LTO
File List Display
Disk
Application
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 System support for IBM Tape Automation
– TS3100 Tape Library
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TS3200 Tape Library
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TS3500 Tape Library
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The LTFS format enables storage of metadata on the tape cartridge, enabling the cartridge to be “self-describing”
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LTFS LE is software that uses the LTFS format and resources of the Operating System
(OS) it is running under to graphically display the contents of a tape library in the OS’s GUI format, typically, a folder / tree structure
– Each volume is displayed as separate directory
– The LTFS metadata of each cartridge, once mounted, is cached in server memory
– After a tape cartridge mounted, cartridge metadata information remains viewable and searchable, even after ejecting the cartridge, no re-mounting is required
• Meta-data operations (browse directory, filename search) do not require tape movement
– Every cartridge and file is accessible via OS file system commands from any application
View of Folders of Cartridges
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Feature Benefit
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Graphical user interface
Utilizes the file system API of the operating system
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Helps reduce complexity by e nabling an iconbased directory tree view of an LTO-5 library, including tape cartridges and files using the operating system's file manager.
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Helps improve easy management by providing a basic read/write interface to the tape library for applications without any additional operating system enhancements,
“plug-ins”, service packs
 “Mount-less” cartridge inquiry for fast access 
Helps find information easily and faster than with tape backup software: once the tape library is inventoried, tape cartridges do not have to be mounted to retrieve metadata (basic cartridge information like volume name, serial number, etc.)
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Reduce your video tape cartridge cost up to 98% 1 using IBM LTO-5 with LTFS.
An LTO-5 archive is 93% less expensive than a comparable disk-only archive 2
 Business Value
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Allows users to read / write, catalog, search data on LTO-5 tape cartridges and libraries using a familiar browser directory tree graphical interface – improving ease of use
– Tape cartridges are “self-describing”: access to files or creation of files does not require an external database.
– LTFS LE enables an open, non-proprietary archive of LTFS cartridges in automation.
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Provides portability: cartridges are compatible with tape management solutions based on the LTFS format specification and existing standalone versions of LTFS
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98% Based on LTO-5 cost of $0.024/min vs HDCAM SR cost of $1.44/min ( LTO price = $75 / 150 TB (3,126 minutes of video) cartridge vs SR video cartridge price of $92 / 64 minutes of video) www.tapeonline.com
and Google products search 3-15-2011
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Based on a 12yr archive TCO analysis by the Clipper Group as documented in Clipper Notes report TCG2010054R “In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution - Tape
Delivers Significant TCO Advantage over Disk”, The Clipper Group, Dec.23, 2010
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LTFS Single Drive Edition File system:
CD bundled at no charge with standalone LTO-5 tape drives (TS2250)
or a no charge download from Fix Central
NEW
LTFS Library Edition File system:
Licensed, chargeable software orderable only on DVD
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Supported Tape Systems
Supported Operating
Systems
Other components
Single Drive Edition Library Edition
TS2250
TS2350
RHEL 5.4, 5.5
SLES 11 SP1
Windows 7 32-bit
Mac OS X 10.5.6
TS3100, TS3200, TS3500
RHEL 5.5
For details on supported hardware configurations please refer to the System
Storage Interoperation Center
(SSIC)
For details on supported hardware configurations please refer to the System
Storage Interoperation Center
(SSIC)
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LTO-5 Helps reduce per cartridge and archive costs vs legacy video tape storage formats
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Per cartridge cost improvement of 98% 1 switching to digital tape for video content vs. analog-based video tape
– An LTO5-based tape archive has a 93% lower TCO than a comparable disk archive 2
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LTFS Helps simplify and expedite the file search process by allowing users to add descriptors (metadata) to files improving search efficiency
(can be substantial when considering the need to search over hundreds or thousands of cartridges typically found in a tape library)
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LTFS Helps enable and simplify the transportability of tape cartridges with crossplatform interchange of data on tape since LTFS makes the cartridges “self-describing”
The lowest $/GB
Self- describing & Portable
Archive-able
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98% Based on LTO-5 cost of $0.024/min vs HDCAM SR cost of $1.44/min ( LTO price = $75 / 150 TB (3,126 minutes of video) cartridge vs SR video cartridge price of $92 / 64 minutes of video) www.tapeonline.com
and Google products search 3-15-2011
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Based on a 12yr archive TCO analysis by the Clipper Group as documented in Clipper Notes report TCG2010054R “In Search of the Long-Term Archiving Solution - Tape
Delivers Significant TCO Advantage over Disk”, The Clipper Group, Dec.23, 2010
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