Sunday, September 12th 2021
FUJIFILM Launches LTO Ultrium 9 Data Cartridge—Cold Storage for up to 45TB Data
FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. is pleased to announce the launch and availability of its FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 9 Data Cartridge (LTO-9). Fujifilm's LTO-9 complies with the ninth generation LTO Ultrium standards for magnetic tape storage media, marking a new standard of performance for backing up and archiving large volumes of data. Fujifilm's LTO-9 uses proprietary technology to offer up to 45 TB of storage capacity (18 TB for non-compressed data), a 50% increase from the previous generation of LTO tape.
Magnetic tape is increasingly recognized as an ideal storage media for long term archival of high-volume data, safely at low-cost. In addition, tape has a significantly lower environmental impact as there is no need to have it constantly powered-on during data storage, thereby reducing CO2 emissions generated during its lifecycle by 95% when compared to hard disk drives (HDDs).
"FUJIFILM LTO Ultrium 9 will meet the world's growing demands for data storage, cybersecurity and reduced climate impact," said Hironobu Taketomi, President, FUJIFILM Recording Media U.S.A., Inc. "This next generation of higher capacity and faster tape storage media represents a significant step towards reducing costs, lowering energy consumption and CO2 emissions, and leveraging tape's inherent security benefits."
Increased capacity meets growing data demands at lower cost
The amount of data generated worldwide has increased exponentially in recent years with the introduction of 5G networks, high-definition video, the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and more. As much as 80% of all data is estimated to be "cold" or rarely-accessed data that can be effectively and more economically moved to a tape storage tier, which offers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) of any storage media.
Less energy consumed results in lower carbon emissions
To address climate change, major data centers and private enterprises are actively adopting renewable energy, or building a data infrastructure that minimizes power use.The reduced energy consumption of tape storage simultaneously reduces energy costs and CO2 emissions.
Increased capacity. Increased speed.
Fujifilm's new LTO-9 achieves its increased storage capacity using barium ferrite (BaFe) magnetic particles, formulated into fine particles with Fujifilm's advanced "NANOCUBIC technology," evenly distributed to coat tape surfaces, forming a smooth and thin magnetic layer. LTO-9 also delivers high-speed data transfer reaching up to 1,000 MB/sec. for compressed data (400 MB/sec. native), a 25% increase over LTO-8.
Offline storage offers protection against cybercrime
Tape can be stored offline and off-network, creating a physical "air gap" of protection to minimize the risk of data exposure to cyberattacks. Security for long-term storage of high-volume data has long made tape a preferred choice of major data centers and research institutes.
As the data storage tape manufacturer of computer-use magnetic tapes with the leading top global market share, Fujifilm will continue to develop and supply high-performance and high-quality media and services that satisfy customers' growing and evolving data storage needs.
Magnetic tape is increasingly recognized as an ideal storage media for long term archival of high-volume data, safely at low-cost. In addition, tape has a significantly lower environmental impact as there is no need to have it constantly powered-on during data storage, thereby reducing CO2 emissions generated during its lifecycle by 95% when compared to hard disk drives (HDDs).
Increased capacity meets growing data demands at lower cost
The amount of data generated worldwide has increased exponentially in recent years with the introduction of 5G networks, high-definition video, the internet of things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) and more. As much as 80% of all data is estimated to be "cold" or rarely-accessed data that can be effectively and more economically moved to a tape storage tier, which offers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) of any storage media.
Less energy consumed results in lower carbon emissions
To address climate change, major data centers and private enterprises are actively adopting renewable energy, or building a data infrastructure that minimizes power use.The reduced energy consumption of tape storage simultaneously reduces energy costs and CO2 emissions.
Increased capacity. Increased speed.
Fujifilm's new LTO-9 achieves its increased storage capacity using barium ferrite (BaFe) magnetic particles, formulated into fine particles with Fujifilm's advanced "NANOCUBIC technology," evenly distributed to coat tape surfaces, forming a smooth and thin magnetic layer. LTO-9 also delivers high-speed data transfer reaching up to 1,000 MB/sec. for compressed data (400 MB/sec. native), a 25% increase over LTO-8.
Offline storage offers protection against cybercrime
Tape can be stored offline and off-network, creating a physical "air gap" of protection to minimize the risk of data exposure to cyberattacks. Security for long-term storage of high-volume data has long made tape a preferred choice of major data centers and research institutes.
As the data storage tape manufacturer of computer-use magnetic tapes with the leading top global market share, Fujifilm will continue to develop and supply high-performance and high-quality media and services that satisfy customers' growing and evolving data storage needs.
3 Comments on FUJIFILM Launches LTO Ultrium 9 Data Cartridge—Cold Storage for up to 45TB Data
Moore than before?
Generally you will want to have disk storage as staging area to ensure you can fill out this tape as quickly as possible. These are very unpractical without using tape libraries.
But once equipped properly, they are very good for long term archiving and offline/offsite backup. The things is those are hard to manage and very costly. But even today, they are still used a lot.