Hello and welcome to today's webcast announcing record breaking technology for digital archive. Our speakers for today are Jim Cates, Vice President of Hardware Development Steve Zavanyc, Vice President of Oracle Storage Business Group and Tom Woltich, Director of Product Management. Just a few announcements before we begin. The menu dock at the bottom of your screen shows icons that allow you to interact with the console. We will be holding a short Q and A session at the end of today's presentation.
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Thanks, Amy. Looking at our agenda for today, we'll first cover an update of the overall tape market and some important changes taking place in the industry, followed by details on our new tape storage products. That said, let's take a look at Oracle's comprehensive storage portfolio. We currently have the Acxiom storage systems, which are ideal for application consolidation by providing quality of service and deterministic IO prioritization for each individual application you're running. This also makes them ideal for providing enterprise IT as a service for secure multi tenancy for application data and user isolation.
We also have the newly announced ZS3 models from our ZFS storage systems portfolio, which are really designed to thrive in highly virtualized environments, accelerate time to insight, run queries faster, deliver management automation in Oracle database environments. And of course, the topic of today's announcement, our Storage Tech tape storage portfolio, which will now enable you to scale up to 68 exabytes of capacity under a single point of control. Together, this portfolio enables us to provide a complete tiered storage solution for any customer environment, be it SAN, NAS, unified storage, high performance storage or storage for backup and archive. As you can see, our overall industry paid capacity shipments increased by 12% in 2012 and are projected to grow by 26% in 2013. The key point here is that there are a number of use cases appearing that are driving this resurgence in tape based storage architectures.
For example, if we take a look at the cloud services space, we see cloud storage providers looking to deploy tape for their deep archival services, as it provides significantly greater longevity and durability and it's more economical than other media for this class of storage. Simply put, cloud service providers can monetize tape faster than any other media when it comes to deep cloud archives. Also enterprises are increasingly looking to take for the mass petabytes of unstructured data that they need to keep stored for compliance and regulatory purposes. And of course, the media and entertainment with the increasing prevalence of high resolution HD video streams, 2 ks, 4 ks, 8 ksIMAX formats are requiring an increasing amount of tape systems to store and archive these massive unstructured content files. Also industries such as healthcare where images have similar data patterns to the many images in the media and entertainment space are also seeing an increased adoption of tape storage systems.
Moving on to the next slide, which brings us to today's news. We're talking about the world's largest and fastest tape drive. It enables 68 exabytes of capacity under a single point of control. The new T1000D tape drive for Oracle's SL-eight thousand five hundred and SL-three thousand tape systems, as well as our new linear tape file system library edition, where we're making tape as easy to use and manage as flash and disk. It's essentially exabyte scale archival storage with a drag and drop user interface.
Both of these were recently announced at the International Broadcasting Conference. And our whole portfolio today, we're going to be talking about the focus and the benefits it brings to enterprises of all sizes as well as key verticals such as media and entertainment, the cloud sector for both public and private instantiations. And the bottom line is that there's new tape NASS, there's new archiving breakthroughs. These are new use cases we're going to be talking about for a new era. On that note, Oracle has an OEM pact with Front Porch Digital, a leading provider of digital asset management solutions for the media and entertainment industry.
Specifically, Front Porch Digital is now offering Oracle's latest T1000D thread with Front Porch Digital's award winning DIVA Digital Asset Management Software Suite and Lynx Cloud offering. As Front Porch Digital is a prominent provider of the media and entertainment sector, this partnership will enable Oracle TAFE solutions to reach a broader audience of customers in need of cost effective storage for their digital film content and unstructured file archives. Now if we go to the next slide, we'd also like to highlight an example of a cloud services provider leveraging Oracle technology to deliver cloud storage services. T3 Media is a global leader in providing cloud based storage for the media and entertainment sector, especially for licensing and accessing of enterprise scale video libraries. Some of the challenges were to digitize store and provide access for more than 100,000 new media assets annually.
They wanted to ensure long term data integrity of clients' media assets. And they really wanted to offer a highly available always on environment for their environments always on environment for their clients in the cloud. And now the solution, the Oracle Storage Tech solution that we provided were petabyte scale storage via our Storage Tech SL-eight thousand five hundred tape libraries, very fast access and retrieval and long term data integrity assurance for all their digital content with our Storage Tech T1000 tape drives and automated file management via Storage Tech, Storage Archive Manager or SAM. SAM manages all the files across multiple tiers of mixed storage to ensure the T3 Media's service level agreements are achieved. So essentially, here's a prime example of tape storage in action in a large scale cloud services environment.
Now I'd like to hand it over to Jim Case, our Vice President of Tape Storage Development for additional details on these newly introduced tape offerings.
Thanks, Steve. We'll move on to the next slide. This covers our physical tape portfolio offered by Oracle. We offer 3 highly scalable tape libraries. The flagship is the SLA 500 that offers almost unlimited scalability and very unique availability features for this portion of the market.
This library supports a wide range of tape drives and is deployed by many cloud companies, Internet companies and companies interested in big data. The SL3000 is a rack like system that scales horizontally and that goes up to 6,000 slots. And when combined with the new T1000D tape drive that scales up to in excess of 50 petabytes of native capacity. So very large library and a very small print print. On the smaller end of the portfolio, the SL-one hundred and fifty rackmount library scales up to 300 slots and supports the LTO portion of the portfolio.
So looking at the tape drives, the T1000D is what we'll discuss today. That is a 4th generation T1000 product and we're going to announce record breaking capacities throughput and also some very interesting interfaces for that ticker product line. For the mid range of the market, we continue to offer LTO drives from both vendors in the SL150, SL3000 and SLU 500 and we plan to continue that in the future. As part of the portfolio, we also offer a software solutions and that includes the linear tape file system, which we'll talk about shortly along with the archive software SAM QSS, which targets HSM and archive capabilities that rounds out the overall offerings of the portfolio. So moving to the next slide, we'll focus first on the new product announcement for the StorageTek LinearTape File System Library Edition.
This extends our current support of the LTFS software that currently supports T1000 LTO and takes that capability from a drive level up to a library level allowing you to scale to extremely high capacities while supporting the LTFS format. Again, the goal is to simplify the overall file access. This enables very easy file transport and finally enables overall to simplify the file management associated with your tape storage. And with that, I'll turn it over to Tom Woltage who will go into a few more details about the software. Thank you, Jim.
So before we get into LTFS and what it does, let's just take a quick step back and look at how tape is accessed today without something like LTFS. So what typically is done is an application maintains its own file index and then writes the actual data to a data cartridge. The most important thing to note on this slide is where the index is which is not on the actual cartridge. So what that really means if you take a look at the next slide is that in order to retrieve any files from tape you would actually need the application itself in order to get to the right file in order to find the right file. However, with LTFS because we write the file index on the cartridge with the file, you only need the cartridge.
You no longer need the actual application to find any particular file. That's important for two reasons. So number 1, for transportability and we'll talk about that in just a moment. You can now ship LTFS cartridges be the T1000 or LTL from Oracle Storage Deck anywhere in the world and you have a self describing cartridge that has the index on it as well as any files. So you can find what you want from something that you received from any other location.
The other thing that you get which is very important for digital archives and preservation is by having files and file indexes independent of the application that you can search and find things. If your application were to go obsolete as long as there's another application that can read the format of that particular file which could be MPEG, JPEG or whatever, you can still access your data that you're trying to preserve. So that's a huge step up for tape and it really puts it on a par with disk and also thumb drives in terms of having a self describing format that you can ship and maintain separately from the application. So this just shows that you can actually transport tapes as I said from one location to another safely securely and of course cost effectively. If you look at the cost of tape versus a thumb drive or this would be a bit dangerous to ship, but even if you did it, tape is by far the most economical and safest way to ship something and ship very large files.
There are many use cases for LTFS starting in media and entertainment. One of the more obvious one is remote capture of content and that needs to be shipped to some remote or from some remote location back to a place where it can be edited. To give you an idea of the type of scale we're looking at here, A modern camera can be up to 85 terabytes for 24 hours of video. So imagine trying to do that with thumb drives or even if you're willing to risk the danger of shipping disk trying to do that with disk drives, it's just not feasible. However, with the tape cartridge capacities that we have today and what we're about to talk about, it is quite feasible and it is also much more economical to use tape.
And so hence the value of the self describing cartridge where the application doesn't have to be aware of which cartridge, which file was written on and where. We can now take video files from remote locations and ship them back for editing and the cartridges and the self describing cartridge with the file index and the files on it. So with LTFS, you can drag and drop files between disk and tape. You can move a file from disk to tape and from tape back to disk. One of the other demos we do for customers is dragging and dropping files between RT-ten thousand family cartridges and LTO.
And the value for that would be if the customer is using LTO to interchange files with other customers or remote locations, They can use LTOs in importexport media. And then they can use the T1000 for their main archive benefiting from the vast huge capacities that the T1000 offers as well as the TCO savings that the T1000 family offers. So they can have a main archive of T1000 drag and drop files to either HP or IBM LTO drives and then use that as an importexport mechanism. So this truly makes tape as usable as disk or flash. And it actually also with Oracle Storage Tech it cuts across the different technologies of tape as well.
So what we're announcing today is extending what we already had for LTFS to now encompass an entire library. So now someone's digital archive in an automated tape library from Oracle Storage Deck, you can have LTFS and you can have those self describing cartridges inside the library. You can import and export in and out using the same application. And you can do it across all the different media formats that we support. So you'll be able to import and export with LTO for example and then have as the main archive in that library the T1000 technology.
So this does several things. Number 1, it opens up the usage of tape to be as convenient and as easy as desk. And number 2, it cuts across the different technologies because LTFS is not just an LTO standard. Oracle is a co chair of the committee for LTFS that is working on making it a standard. And our LTFS library edition works with RT1000 family as well as LTL.
And it makes each of them as accessible as any other and we can transport files between them as well as on and off of disk. So Oracle focuses on providing an economic benefit for our customers because we realize especially in the enterprise space, which is the focus of today's call that every decision is really also a business decision. It's not just a technology choice. So we have advantages in acquisition costs for libraries, drives, media, etcetera. With our LTFS library edition, we carry that forward in the software as well.
So our experience with customers building archives, they all know that they have a challenge in terms of growth and how to accommodate it. And we found that they really don't like software licenses that are pegged to cartridge counts or to capacities or to drive counts and things like that. It's kind of a nuisance whenever you add more drives or cartridges that have to also go add more software licenses. So what we have is a fee for LTFS library edition. It's just really for a library.
And as Jim covered our libraries earlier, we have very, very scalable libraries. So once you buy one of those and you buy LTFS Library Edition, as you scale that library out, you don't have to buy additional licenses. It's just simply a library feature that you turn on and then you just use it and you grow as you need to grow. So in short, you save with Oracle and the more you grow, the more you will save with Oracle LTFS Library Edition. Okay.
So we are happy to announce that Oracle Storage Tech LTFS Library Edition is available. It's available from Oracle eDelivery and you can download it just like you download other Oracle software and try it free for up to 30 days to decide if you like it and you want to purchase it for your environment. So it's also in addition to being very easy to use, it's also very, very easy to purchase. So just to wrap up on LTFS, this makes we're now making tape more accessible, more user friendly than it ever has been before. And since it is such a great fit for archives, this is something that we view as a key enabling technology for the future of the overall tape industry.
So with that, I'll turn it back to Jim to talk about the new tape drive. Thank you, Tom. So we'll also cover the second half of our tape announcements. I'm very pleased today to announce our new T-1000D tape drive, which represents a giant leap forward in tape technology and demonstrates Oracle's commitment to innovation and storage. Moving to the next slide, we'll go into details about the product.
We're pleased to announce an industry leading 8.5 terabytes of uncompressed native capacity. And with typical compression rates you see in IT data centers in excess of 201 this means cost of capacities can exceed 20 terabytes when running in compressed mode. The transfer rates in the industry leading 252 megabytes per second data rate And again that's uncompressed. And when running with compressed data, it supports up to 800 megabytes per second data rate. This drive has the first 16 gigabit per second fiber channel interface and also the industry's first 10 gigabit per second fiber channel over Ethernet interface.
So 2 innovations also in terms of interfaces and how you communicate with the tape drive. For those customers using the previous generation T1000 technology, this driver will back read the T1000A, B and C cartridges supporting 3 generations of backward read compatibility. This also a very innovative supporting enterprise market, it reuses the existing T2 media. So for those customers that have T1000C cartridges, they can declare those scratch, put them into the D drive and now gain the full capacity of 8.5 terabytes with the new drive technology. This is a real TCO of advantage for customers who have a large amount of media can now be reused at higher capabilities with the new tape drive.
This drive is compatible with the largest SLA 500 library along with the SL3000 and we do continue to offer a rackmount system for those who only need a single drive or dual drives. So with that, I'll turn it over to Tom Voltage who will do some comparisons with other products in the market. Thank you, Joe. So let's take a look at each of these industry leading specs one at a time and talk about what they do for customers. So let's start with the capacity.
So we already had, believe it or not, the world's highest capacity cartridge with our T1000C at 5 terabytes. It was actually, as you could see, the T1000C at 5 is more than twice the capacity of LTO-six and it's also higher capacity than other enterprise drives on the market. With the T1000D, we're taking that leadership and extending it even further to 8.5 terabytes per cartridge. What that does is for someone building a new archive for instance, it's more than triple the capacity of the best LTO drive. And that means that you can store the same amount of data in a third number of libraries.
That's a huge, huge savings. Huge savings on the acquisition cost of library and the maintenance cost etcetera, but also a savings in floor space and power and cooling. And we put the other generations of LTO on here just because LTO 6 is still fairly new and most of the installed base customers are on LTO 4 or 5. In fact many of them use even generations of LTO because they have to buy media with each new drive to use the capacity and they can't afford to change all their media out with every generation. So a lot of them started with LTO2 and are on the even number generations.
So if you look at a typical LTO4 customer looking at deciding whether or not to move to LTO6, If they consider the T1000D, you're looking at literally better than an order of magnitude improvement in capacity, which is a massive consolidation capability. If you already have an Oracle Storage Tech library, you can basically get more than 10x the capacity in the library you already own and you may not need to purchase new libraries for a long time. Or if you have other people's libraries and you're looking at moving to the new generation of tape drives, If you move to the T1000D, we can consolidate more than 10 to 1 over what the customer has today. So pretty massive step up in capacity. And likewise on performance, we are the leader with the T10000D over any other technology today.
And you can see the comparison with LTO-six and again going back to LTO-four for someone that's looking at do you go to LTO-six or maybe consider the T1000D someone in that situation you could see the T1000D has more than double the throughput of the LTO-four, 1.5 more than 1.5 times the throughput of You get more performance per drive. We can generally configure a system with fewer drives with the T1000D which again has a nice economic savings for the customer in addition to reliability savings as well. So a big, big, big improvement and advantage on throughput. And Jim alluded to the impressive capacities, if you also consider compression and compression will vary by application. So some applications, the Open Systems data protection people are quoting 2.5 to 1 now.
You can see the advantage that T1000D brings over the latest generation most recent LTO drive. And then as the compression ratios increase, you could see the T1000D maintains a healthy advantage. Part of this of course is being the first 16 gig drive available in the market. We're not limited by the pipe on the input to the drive and we designed a drive likewise to handle very, very fast compressed throughput. So again a big, big advantage for the T1000D a big step up.
Okay. So let's bring this home in terms of what does this mean. So if you take a customer putting together a 1 petabyte archive, what is and 500 megabytes a second is there throughput requirement? What does it look like with the T1000D? And you can see how it compares with the different LTO technologies a massive, massive difference.
Now what I'd like to take a step back and point out is we designed the T1000D for what we call enterprise customers and that 1 petabyte bar is about the entry point. So for customers looking to build archives 1 petabyte and bigger, there are significant advantages to the T1000D. I've highlighted just 2 so far in terms of capacity and throughput. We'll go into some more. For customers smaller than that and then if you go into say the SMB space for classic IT backup and things like that, we sell LTO.
In fact, we're the market leader in the larger LTO configurations and then also in a segment in that rackmount LTO drive in automation segment. And we're going to continue to be and our plan is to continue to do so. So we will carry LTO and sell LTO and we expect to lead the LTO market in automation for that case. But for large archives, we wanted to offer our customers basically a better solution by taking our enterprise technology, extending it beyond the mainframe into big digital archives with high growth rates because there was a lot of value we can bring. Like I said, I've just covered 2 of them so far.
What does the capacity and throughput mean to a system? And we'll get into some more advantages in just a second. But you can see a massive advantage over the best LTO technology and then it gets to incredible consolidation capabilities for the installed base that's looking at upgrading. So I did mention that we do focus on TCO because in the enterprise space it is a business decision. And for a lot of the large archives they're looking at tremendous amounts of data and incredible growth rates and that's tough against the budget.
The T1000D is designed not only to run better, but also to deliver a big acquisition cost advantage versus other alternatives. And then obviously with less hardware, less footprint, you get savings on maintenance, you get improvements in reliability, you get savings on floor space, power and cooling that can be dramatic. And one of the things I touched on earlier was about media reuse. So with LTO in order to achieve the specs they use the latest drive technology requires the latest media cartridge. And that's why a lot of customers in LTO originally was designed to replace DLT is what they went after.
Most of the DLT customers didn't jump in on LTO-one. They waited for LTO-two. And because media, especially when you go into the use case of archive, media can be the biggest component of the customer spend compared to drives and libraries. They couldn't afford to buy new media for LTO3 and buy LTO3 drives. So they stayed on LTO2 and waited till LTO4 came out and then did the migration and buy all the new media and all the new drives.
So a lot of customers are doing that every other generation approach for LTL. With the enterprise T1000 family, they don't have to do that. So the original T1000A when we came out with the B we were able to migrate our customers up to the higher capacity just by buying drives. They got to reuse all their media. We're doing the same with the T1000D.
Everybody that bought the T1000C, all the media that they have for it, they can now reuse in the T-ten thousand D at the higher capacity. And again, since that is often the biggest component of the system cost, being able to reuse the media is huge. And it means that customers that have the C can actually look at the D. They don't have to wait and try to do the every other generation approach that you see with the LTO technology for example. I'd also like to point out that T1000C has been the fastest adopted drive in terms of Oracle Storage Tech's history.
The capacity adoption on that drive is faster than anything else we've ever done. And now we're looking to build on the lead that we already have with the T1000C with the new T1000D. Reusing all that media will actually enable that large rapidly growing installed base of T-1000C customers to look at using the D and reap the benefits of all that additional capacity for the media they've already bought. Another concern that archive customers have is they're keeping again this isn't a backup use case, but archive where you're keeping the data for a number of years is being able to read the data back. The T1000D not only reads the C media, it reads the B media and it reads all the way back to the A.
So we have 3 prior generations or another way to look at it T1000D drive can read 4 different generations of T1000 written media all in that same drive. So again, it has an obvious cost savings of you can just put this in and read all your own media, get rid of the replace the drives you already have. And that has a big cost savings in terms of support maintenance and things like that. Just put in the D and then use the D to write the new stuff and also read anything you'd written from any of the 3 previous generations. Again another big advantage that you see in an enterprise drive that other drive technologies don't have.
The T1 key point on the T1000D, I talked a lot about the economic benefits and the performance of capacity and those are the banner flagship specs and benefits for a customer. But there's a lot of other things to drive that come from our legacy of doing enterprise drives and drives for the harshest environments for mainframe environments that do lots of starts and stops and are really rough on tape drives. I could we could spend a couple of hours on how we actually make the drive and how it's different than other technologies that are out there. But just at a high level, I'll touch on these. The first one, the tape path, we guide on the backside of the media.
The tape path never touches the data. We do that for obvious data integrity reasons. The second one about the media itself. So in addition to using barium ferrite which has very nice durability properties relative to metal particulate which is great for archive customers, The substrate we use is also very different with the T1000 family than what's available from other vendors. So we use an aramid substrate, which is basically Kevlar, which is the same thing that's used to make bulletproof vest.
It's a very, very strong material, but it has a very nice property in terms of when subjected to massive changes in temperature and humidity, Aramid doesn't expand and contract nearly as much as other technologies that are used in other tape drives. What this means and this is why it's important for archive customers is if your tape is ever exposed to changes be the your air conditioning system failed or you shipped it off-site and it went through whatever environment on its way to some other site. The T-ten thousand is built to handle that much better than any other technology I'll cover in a moment. That's also huge for archive and I'll explain that in just a minute. 32 channels, so as opposed to using a 16 channel design compared to 16 channels for any given technology, we can hit the same throughput.
We could have hit with 16 channels by moving the tape half as fast. That's gentler on the media and makes the media last longer. It also means fewer passes to fill the cartridge which again is more reliable and will make the media last longer. And then there's lots of advantages that we put into the drive that result in a much better and corrected bit error rate, but it is literally 2 orders of magnitude better than midrange technologies. All of these things are just a short I feel like I've not covered them and done justice to the drive, but just a short list of many things that we do in an enterprise drive.
But that appeals very strongly and applies very strongly to people in archives who are trying to keep data for many, many years and they care about things like durability and reliability. One of the other things to point out, this is just a sample of another advantage is we can play the make a table and put the specs side by side and show you the comparison. We can play that out. But that actually understates our advantage because a customer this is how they would actually use TAFE. They were going to write so much data to 1 of 2 technologies.
With the T1000D because we have so much higher capacity, you can see it's fewer loads and unloads compared to in this case LTO 6 right and there would be massively more compared to the previous generations of LTO. That inherently is more reliable, okay? So loads and unloads on a driver are something that's as a wear and tear specification and it's something that could wear out over time, you're going to do like a third or even fewer loads and unloads using a T1000D in an archive than you will with mid range technology. The other point on here is the amount of time it takes to write the data is also far less because of the throughput advantage that basically minimizes headwear makes again makes the drive last longer. So you could see a common theme of build for enhanced durability and it will show up especially in an enterprise archive type of use case.
Okay. So I talked to I mentioned that we cover media validation. Let me just take a step back and explain it. There's really 2 pieces to media validation. So first one is, if you're building archives you care about end to end data integrity.
So in order to do that, we the application attaches a CRC to the data and ships it down the fiber channel or in the case of T1000D could be a SCOE interface to the drive. The drive is checking the CRC versus the data to make sure that the data is received is correct before writing it to tape. And of course, we do a read after write to make sure that what's on the tape is indeed what was the data back at the server. If anything fails the CRC, there's a resend. Okay.
For media validation now, so that first piece just gives you data integrity. Second part is that someone in archive would care about is I wrote many petabytes of data. I haven't touched some of it for a long time. I hope it's still there, right? How do I know that it's still there and hasn't been corrupted in some way shape or form?
The only way to do that up until now or up until the T1000 family address this problem was to read all the data back to the server and compare. And now that's okay if you're talking about a use case of just a few terabytes or tens of terabytes. But when you start building these large digital archives as our customers are doing in the many petabyte tens, hundreds of petabytes and we do have customers over an exabyte that's just not feasible. So what we've done with the T1000D is built the capability into the drive to have it validate the cartridge. So what somebody can do is have a library with T1000D drives and media in it and then they can allocate a couple of drives for auditing.
And then there's different choices of how you may want to do your audits. It could be time based. They could be based upon when you last touched the media or if our tape analytics software suggested that something might be amiss. Whatever it is that the customer chooses as the trigger for audits, the cartridges can then be loaded into T1000D drive that will compare the CRC versus the data inside the drive without sending all the data back and then send back a confirmation to the server that everything's fine or indicate that if everything's not fine then you're notified and you can then rewrite the data to either that cartridge or another cartridge. So I touched on tape analytics as a product that we've launched prior to this and it's been one of our best received product launches ever.
For the simple fact that it gives customers a view into their tape environment they've never seen before. And by that I mean the drive whenever it writes or reads from a piece of media, it knows a lot about what went on, on that write or read. The issue was getting that information out of the drive and then analyzing it and presenting a view to the customer of what's going on. That's where the industry is the tape industry as a whole hadn't really provided a good solution. So with tape analytics, we capture over 150 attributes on every single mount.
It comes out of the drive to the library and then our libraries have an Ethernet port on them that can be connected to a little Linux server that's running tape analytics software. That tape analytics software has a few components to it. One of it is an Oracle MySQL database that's capturing all of this like I said over 150 attributes and every single amount goes into this database. And then it has our basically our IP from all of our years working and troubleshooting drives and media inside that software so that in the single pane of glass you can see every drive. You can see a summary of the drives, the media and all of your libraries that you're connected to.
And then you can drill down into any problem areas and you can literally drill down all the way to an individual cartridge if you want and see every single amount of that cartridge what happened on any of those 150 attributes if you really want to drill down that far. You don't have to. We provide the actual recommendation for you of this cartridge is fine or this cartridge is not fine. But that information is there for anybody that wants to look at it. But the nice thing about it for the first time ever, you can see what's going on in your environment with the media with the drive.
And if you have a problem it pinpoints what it is so you can fix it. In the past, it was never shown as clearly. So we're pretty excited about that. That is integrated with our libraries. And we do also integrate with our data media validation as well.
Tape analytics is one of the things that can kick off an audit to provide that total data integrity and also simplicity and management that is new for tape which is great. All right. So with that, I think we touched on 2 huge announcements. It's not done just for Oracle storage set, for the overall tape industry. And in particular, we focused on enterprise archive.
1 was about making tape much, much easier to use simplifying the accessibility of tape and that's LTFS Library Edition. And then the other one is our record setting T1000D enterprise tape drive, which not only blows out the specs on all the banner specs for capacity and throughput, has a whole lot of enterprise features in it, has a lot of advantages for digital archives, but also does it at a very competitive and compelling total cost of ownership relative to anything else on the market. So with that, I'll turn it back over to Steve.
Thank you, Tom. So if we can then move to the next slide here. The key takeaways for today is that obviously data growth continues unabated. Tape is becoming increasingly prevalent across new industries and applications, including media and entertainment as deep archival stores for cloud service providers as the most economical tier of storage for backup and archive for enterprises and obviously the healthcare sector. And for those companies who truly need to store big data, the ability to scale to 68 exabytes of capacity under a single point of control provides new meaning to the term big when it comes to storage solutions.
Bottom line, Oracle will continue to innovate in its tape storage portfolio, deliver highly efficient solutions that lower customers' total cost for operations and management and deliver optimal levels of performance and value. We'll continue to out engineer competitors with products that deliver superior price performance and business enabling capabilities. Now some additional resources you may want to access include white papers on how to best implement tape storage solutions in your particular environment as well as a free trial of our new LTFS library edition software. Back to you, Amy.
Great. Now we will move on to the question and answer portion of our event. So we've seen a lot of questions come in already, so I'm just going to get started here. You mentioned that the T10,000 drives are supported by LTFS library edition. Is this accurate?
I thought LTFS was only supported by LTO?
This is Jim. I'll take that one. That's a very good question. This is a common misunderstanding currently in the tape industry. LTFS is actually a specification that can be supported by any drive type that supports the basic partitioning capability on cartridge.
And with that both the T1000 tape drives and the LTL tape drives support partitioning and support LTFS capability for a couple of years now.
Okay. Thanks, Jim. Let's see. We have another LTSS question here. What tape libraries does the LTFS software support?
Yes. The LTFS library edition software from Oracle will support the SLA-five hundred and the SL3000 tape libraries. Certainly customers can deploy that with new libraries, but they also have an opportunity to take an existing library and with the partitioning capability of that library cut off a small area to deploy the LTSS with either the T1000 drives or the LTO drives without investing any additional hardware.
Great. Thank you. Let's see. Does Oracle offer an open source LTFS solution?
Yes. It's called Oracle's Storzetech LTFS Open Edition and that software supports LTFS on a single desktop or rackmount drive on the T1000 platform or the LTO platform. This product has been open source for a couple of years now and it was recently enhanced to support both the LTO-six and the T1000D tape drives. The library edition takes that value prop at the drive level and moves that up to the entire tape library which is the incremental value of the library edition level.
Okay, great. Let's see here. Is there a data threshold where it makes more sense to invest in T1000D instead of LTO?
Good question for the tape drives. A simple guideline is that if you're looking at anything more in the petabyte that's a very good fit for the enterprise drives. The T1000D will offer lower cost than the enterprise performance and reliability advantages that you need. The savings really become meaningful versus what you might have with an LTO. If you're only looking at a couple of 100 terabytes or you're looking for look at desktop or small rack mount just very small entry level libraries.
LTO is a very good mid range fit for that market and we do offer the SL-one hundred and fifty and other products that fill that space.
Okay. So related question there, will Oracle continue to offer LTO-six in your libraries?
Yes. We continue to offer LTO 6. That's we've Oracle Storage Tech start offering LTO with the Generation 1 to support all 5 versions. And with LTO 6, we support the capability from both IBM and HP and we certainly plan to continue that support as we move forward in time.
Okay. Thank you. Let's see here. How much more should I expect to pay for this enterprise class tape drive?
Very good question. This all comes down to TCO type conversations. The overall T1000D is priced so the total acquisition cost is less than LTL-six solution. And when we say total acquisition cost as Tom went over in detail, what you can do with T1000, you can buy fewer drives, you can buy fewer cartridges, you can have a smaller library and meet the same capacity and throughput targets. And so what you get see all the incremental capabilities associated with enterprise tape drives higher reliability, higher capabilities and you can derive that at a lower cost than a comparable LTO solution when you look at all the parts included.
Okay. Here's a specific question for you guys. Is the 16 gigabyte fiber channel interface also compatible with the 8 gigabyte and 4 gigabyte environments?
Certainly a good question. That comes up often as you start talking about new capabilities for interfaces. But the 16 gigabit similar to the earlier generations will negotiate down to support 8 gigabit and 4 gigabit environments. So for those customers that have those 4 gigabit fiber channel, 8 gigabit fiber channel networks already in place, The T1000 DB driver will recognize that and all the negotiate down to the best speed for that particular customer environment.
Okay. I think we have room for one more question here.
Native throughput of uncompressed data is 252 megabytes per second. But utilizing the higher 16 gigabit fiber channel interface with compressed data we can push up to 800 megabytes per second, which is about 2.8 terabytes per hour. And at the library level, you can scale that by the number of drives you have back there. So that can scale up to 100 of terabytes per hour capability with our library systems.
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