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ARMED AND READY. ORIGINAL® VENT COVERT MGV-55 ORIGINAL® COVERT MG-55 M-PACT Why add tape to your storage strategy? ■ Tape has a 30-year shelf life. ■ Tape sits on a shelf in a tape library (or outside the library). In a stable environment, tape is a stable medium. ■ Tape saves power and cooling costs over disk systems. In a comparison of a large Spectra Logic library and a disk system, the disk system uses 10 times as much power per hour to store the same quantity of data. This power use does not factor in cooling, which conservatively doubles the power use of disk to 20 times the power used by a tape system. ■ Disk is more than 15 times more expensive than tape, based upon vendor-supplied list pricing, and uses 238 times more energy for an archiving application of large binary files with a 45 percent annual growth rate, all over a 12-year period, according to the Clipper Group's 2010 study. ■ Data density for a tape library: 2,700+ TB per square foot (based on a Spectra T950 library with 10,020 tapes). ■ Current storage prices start at $0.05-$0.10/GB for tape vs. $0.50/GB for disk ■ Tape is 100 to 10,000 times more reliable than disk, according to published bit error rates. stream video data, and the costs involved in moving or accessing data that has been stored in a public cloud. For large amounts of video and other data, "the current monthly cost to rent storage [from cloud-based storage providers] is roughly equivalent to the amount that would be needed to purchase it outright," says John Villasenor, Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings, and professor of electrical engineering and public policy at University of ® COVERT MPT-55 California, Los Angeles, in a 2011 paper about digital storage growth. In-house is possible: the plummeting costs of data storage The ubiquity of the term "Big Data" is already desensitizing us to its staggering implications. Data production is projected to be 1.8 zettabytes this year. Not many people can envision a zettabyte, which is 1,000 exabytes, or 1,000,000 petabytes, or one billion terabytes, if that helps. The quantity of data gener- M-PACT ® 2 COVERT * 1000 - 1800 lb. capacity at over 100% extension MP2-55 * Designs made to fit most vehicles * Custom designs available for all applications Mechanix Gloves. The Tool ® That Fits Like a Glove. Mention this ad and get up to $150 off accessories when you spend $2500 GSA Schedule #GS-30-F-0004S Offer only available for all new orders placed August 2013 through September 2013. www.extendobed.com mechanix.com Circle 81 on Reader Service Card Circle 80 on Reader Service Card Ph: (800) 752-0706