IBM TS4500 Tape Library

Highlights

• Store up to 5.5 petabytes (PBs) of uncompressed data in a single frame library or scale up at 1 PB per square foot to 175.5 PBs
• Proactively monitor archived data with policy-based automatic media verification
• Strengthen security and regulatory compliance with data encryption and write-once-read-many (WORM) media
• Increase mount performance and overall system availability with dual robotic accessors
• Support any combination of Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium 7, 6, and 5, and IBM® TS1150 and TS1140 tape drives
• Simplify user access to data stored on tape cartridges via IBM Spectrum Archive™ featuring IBM Linear Tape File System™ technology
• Provide a flexible upgrade path for users who want to expand their tape storage as their needs grow
• Reduce the storage footprint and simplify cabling with 10U of rack space on top of the library

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IBM TS4500 Tape Library is a next-generation storage solution designed to help midsized and large enterprises respond to cloud storage challenges. These challenges include high data volume growth in cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures, increasing cost of storage footprints, the difficulty of migrating data across vendor platforms, and the increased complexity of IT training and management as staff resources shrink.