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Big Data Tape Library Buyer’s Guide released
DCIG announces the availability of its inaugural DCIG 2012 Big Data Tape Library Buyer's Guide that weights, scores and ranks more than 140 features on more than 60 tape libraries from 8 different storage providers. Driven by the explosion of storage requirements to address "Big Data" and the "Cloud," organizations are now more than ever looking for cost-effective, viable storage media on which to store this data.
In the world of Big Data, more organizations of all sizes capture, store and retain more data for longer periods of time than ever before. Even as the traditional drivers of data growth remain with us (backups, growth of structured data stores, etc.), new ways in which organizations may capture data are driving today's unprecedented data growth.
As enterprise organizations come to grips with their Big Data requirements and/or look to store data in the cloud, the cost of retaining all of that data is beginning to come fully into focus, especially if they look solely at disk to do so.
In the guide, DCIG accounts for tape's historical use case of backup as well as its emerging role as a cost effective storage medium for archival data that is resulting from the advent of Big Data and the Cloud.
The guide accomplishes the following objectives for end users:
- 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 libraries 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 66 tape libraries from 8 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
The DCIG 2012 Big Data Tape Library Buyer's Guide is available immediately and may be downloaded for no charge with registration by following this link.