Tackling data overload and cybercrime
02 August 2022
Business is processing data at an unprecedented rate. Cloud Servers are overloaded with data. The latest data centres require very little human intervention to run but consume vast quantities of power and energy processing their data adding to the world’s global warming problems with Bitcoin mining the worst culprit consuming nearly 100 terawatt-hours each year, which is 100 billion hours in old money! Our growing thirst for more and more data is becoming a real challenge for businesses around
In the olden days tape back-ups were the thing, with almost every hard drive using tape to save its valuable data. Interestingly tape is remerging as a possible additional back-up service to Cloud, Webservers and off-site data centres. Whilst not the tape back-ups some of us knew in the past, these are new and highly efficient tape technologies that are looking like the new way to securely back-up all our precious files.A lot of data is used once, archived, and then sometimes never to be used again, clogging-up valuable Cloud and disk space, using more power and energy and prolonging the data lifespan unnecessarily. Whilst storage costs continue to rise this unused data is causing huge wastage.
With demand increasing every year, new methods to store files is becoming urgent with tape tech looking like a real possibility. A lot of large firms are finding they need to almost double their data storage capacity every year leading to higher processing costs, increased energy usage, and more carbon emissions. It seems improbable that this can be sustained.
However, tape technology with its improved speeds, greater capacities, energy savings, better cyber security and cost efficiencies is looking like an excellent solution. In the coming years tape is set to thrive to become more mainstream.
There has been a lot of research done into the relative performance of new tape technology versus Cloud and hard drive systems, with tape proving to save over 50% on carbon emissions and over 40% less wastage on electricity. In addition, this research showed that if the data was archived and transferred to tape it would save over 90% on carbon emissions along with all the cost savings that comes with.
In the coming years there is likely to be a shift away from the classic data centre where Cloud and other servers reside. The growing need to cut carbon emissions and energy costs will drive this down the road to end up with tape and other emerging technologies becoming the new norm for storing data.
Reduced tape track sizes will increase capacities, improve speeds and download times to give users the means to store their data a lot more efficiently.
Tape will not only improve efficiency it will also increase a firm’s ability to combat cybercrime. Firms live with the threat of ransomware and malicious trojans and worms every day, but tape has the potential to greatly reduce this by removing the conduit on which every hacker relies, electricity. Without electricity hackers are stumped and with faster back-up speeds data security is enhanced to give the hacker far less time to download malware.
With no power source hackers become redundant. Cloud and hard drives systems that are fixed to an electrical supply are considerably more vulnerable to attack by being constantly on, giving tape a distinct advantage. Whilst Cloud and hard drive back-up systems in the office and in external data centres continue to provide excellent value for money as well as security, the addition of tape technology offers an extra layer of support to keep hackers and other predators further away from a firm’s files.
Tape technology continues to improve with increased speeds, reliability and overall performance that will gradually overtake the performances of disk technology. Tape and future emerging technologies will prove their worth in the coming years to help reduce carbon emissions, storage costs; archived and active, and data security.
Whether off-site or in the Cloud the trick is to get your data to the right place, at the right time, securely and in the most cost-effective way. Tape tech offers data managers the luxury of almost endless storage for their ‘archived’ or ‘cold’ data whilst improving download speeds and overall accessibility to a firm’s precious data.
Tape is making a comeback!
For more information about tackling data overload and cyber threats Phone: 01342 301325 Email: thebureau@the-bureau.co.uk
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