Compare Storage Hardware and Storage Software. Learn the benefits of IBM System Storage compared to competitive storage hardware and storage software vendors.
The right storage hardware and storage software are critical to a flexible, on demand IT infrastructure—and to meeting today's growing compliance demands. To help you attain both objectives, IBM offers a wide range of performance and capacity options for data protection, disaster resiliency and metro and global mirroring. IBM's key advantage? Our disk, tape, and software products work together to exploit synergies—such as virtualization—across IBM systems. The benefit for you: higher performance and availability across heterogeneous servers and applications, at lower cost and with less complexity.
IBM's integrated approach to storage hardware and software makes it easy for you to add individual products to your infrastructure, or gain maximum advantage through an end-to-end, scalable solution. Our industry and technical experts are available to create an Information Infrastructure strategy designed specifically for your current and future needs.
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Tape systems: Still the cost effective and preferred method of safeguarding your data
IBM invented the concept of magnetic tape storage in 1952, and we've produced a steady stream of innovations in the technology since then. The latest example is the highest performance high capacity enterprise drive available - the IBM System Storage™ TS1130 Tape Drive. Equivalent to storing the text of one million books on a single tape cartridge, the IBM System Storage TS1130 Tape Drive is ideal for mid-sized to enterprise clients across financial, life sciences and public sector industries looking for massive data protection, compliance and archive solutions needed over the long term.
| Features | IBM TS1130 | Oracle/Sun T10000B |
|---|---|---|
| Native data rate | 160MBps | 120MBps |
| Tape drive buffer | 1GB | 256MB |
| Power consumption (Drive/standby) | 46W/17W | 63W/NA |
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