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How to reduce costs with tape storage and Active Circle?

Companies today face a major challenge: managing to store all the data they generate every day, while ensuring its long-term preservation.

The question is no longer just where to store the data , but above all at what cost over time .

In this context, archiving strategies become a key lever for optimization. Active Circle is precisely aligned with this logic: enabling organizations to manage their data effectively while controlling their infrastructure costs.

Tape storage: an economical solution for archiving

For data archiving, tape storage remains one of the most economical and reliable media.

A cost up to 6 times lower

Total cost of ownership analyses show that, for long-term archiving, disk storage can cost more than six times more per terabyte than tape storage .

This difference is mainly due to the infrastructure required to keep disk systems running continuously.

Very low energy consumption

Unlike disk systems, which must remain powered continuously to keep data accessible, tapes do not need a continuous power supply to retain data when stored .

This feature makes it possible to significantly reduce the overall energy consumption related to archiving , an increasingly strategic point for companies concerned about their costs and energy impact.

A medium particularly suited to long-term archiving

Tape storage is particularly used to store large amounts of data over long periods .

It is particularly relevant when:

Access to data is infrequent.
but their preservation remains essential .

Active Circle: a unified storage environment

In an Active Circle environment, it becomes possible to manage different storage media — disk, tape or cloud — within the same platform , with unified access to data.

This approach allows:

to adapt storage to the data lifecycle,
to leverage the advantages of each technology,
and to optimize costs as well as overall data management.

But most importantly, Active Circle allows access to archived tape data directly in file mode, without going through a restoration phase. This makes data easier to access when needed.