The rise of virtualization and digitization of data has been revolutionary to modern enterprises. However, many businesses are still stuck with using or needing to maintain tape based backups and the hardware and software that comes with these legacy assets, even though much of the rest of their environment has been virtualized. Tape storage has life span, scale, and efficiency limitations that can stunt a business’ growth, prompting a rush to migrate existing tape libraries to the cloud.

Tape Ark, the global experts in tape to cloud migration, has partnered with Wasabi hot cloud storage to bring massive volumes of tape data to the cloud where they can be more easily accessed and used to advance business goals.

Tape Ark Paves the Way to the Cloud

Tape Ark’s scalable approach to tape migration rapidly positions your data in the cloud enabling organizations to leap into a world of opportunities. With data assets restored and highly accessible they are positioned for maximum value with decreased time to discovery and the ability to harness new insights from existing data that was previously offline and out of sight.

Tape Ark offers tape data recovery and restore without any need for the customer to maintain the original software. After data restoration, Tape Ark will present the data to you in its original native or raw format positioned for ingest for today’s modern applications. This also enables a company to get faster access to legacy content – anytime and anywhere.

Furthermore. Through utilizing a Virtual Tape Library (VTL) in the cloud, your business will retain all its existing data but in a much more usable format free from the constraints of physical hardware. The centralized repository allows access to the data from anywhere in the world at speeds that are several magnitudes faster than what was allowed by traditional tape storage. Tape Ark also manages tape collections post-conversion to allow businesses an additional copy of their data in accordance with the 3-2-1 rule of backup.

Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage Delivers Breakthrough Economics and Performance

Wasabi is the hot cloud storage company delivering low-cost, fast and reliable cloud storage on-demand. Wasabi’s solution is 80% less expensive and is faster than first-generation cloud vendors. Wasabi hot cloud storage is designed with eleven nines (99.999999999%) of object durability and data immutability that guarantees stored objects cannot be deleted or modified by anyone. Not only is Wasabi 80% less expensive to store data than traditional cloud providers, but there are also no fees for egress or API requests. Wasabi keeps all data “hot” so it can be accessed in milliseconds. All Tape Ark and Wasabi customers can treat their data as hot data, so they can shorten upload windows and quickly access their data for faster restore times.

Tape Ark and Wasabi Combine for Best-in-Class Data Storage

Data restore and access to virtualized tape data in Wasabi gives your business the freedom to utilize that data in ways not possible with legacy systems. The low-latency and high capacity of Wasabi’s cloud increases efficiency at every level of your business. And the low cost of Wasabi storage combined with the infinite scalability of the cloud means there are no limits to the amount of data that can be stored. Wasabi’s S3 compatibility allows for seamless integration with numerous third-party applications purpose built for nearly any use case. Tape Virtualization is the gateway for a new world of growth fueled by data, and Tape Ark and Wasabi’s joint solution is the way to achieve that.