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 more.

A next-generation cloud storage solution that delivers high storage density and integrated management

Big data offers offers cast opportunities for business insight, but you need the right technology to help you manage and use that data. IBM cloud solutions can help you harness the power og big data while reducing the costs and enabling a secure environment.

TS4500 answers those business needs by incorporating the latest generation of industry-leading LTO and IBM enterprise-class technology that will help organisations handle the growing data demands of modern tape use cases like bug data, cloud, media and entertainment, ultra-high-definition editing, digital video surveillance, Internet of Things (IoT), Active file archiving and, of course, backup.

The next generation IBM TS4500 Tape Library is designed to help midsized and large enterprises meet cloud storage challenges, including data volume growth, rising storage footprint costs, data migration efforts and the increased complexity of IT training and management as staff resources shrink.

TS4500 delivers the density that todays data growth requires-along with the efficiency and manageability to grow with business needs while preserving your existing investments in IBM Tape Library products. You can achieve both a low per-terabyte cost and high density, with up to 13 PB of data in a single 10 square foot library using LTO Ultrium 9 cartridges or 11 PB with 3593 cartridges.

TS4500 provides advanced capabilities for integrated tape drive and media management , delivered within a single-pane-of-glass management console. The TS4500 graphical user interface (GUI) is based on unified interface used in other IBM storage solutions. It includes key features to help guide storage administrators in completing critical tasks. For example, you can monitor tape library via persistent, at-a-glance library utilisation and health status indicators.

IBM TS4500 features such as automatic control-path and data-path failover, tape-drive encryption, dual robotic accessors and WORM media support improved management and help reduce risk in the cloud.