Wolberry provide Sony Optical Disk Archive (ODA) storage solutions that are cost-effective for long-term digital preservation of your vital business information. Wolberry data centre and cloud solutions ensure your information is stored effectively, is easily searchable and supports compliance, collaboration and other critical business processes.
As we know, legal, accounting and administrative records have a retention period of 7 years, some much longer and others still require permanent preservation.
- Financial Services organizations are required to retain dossiers for more than 50 years
- Life Sciences and Healthcare companies need to archive information for at least 30 years
- Engineering and Nuclear plans and documents must be retained for up to 100 years or more
LTO8 Tape Systems Only Read One Generation Back – LTO7
. Current generation LTO8 Tape technology cannot not read LTO6 tapes you bought in 2014. What’s more LTO Tape solutions are more expensive over time than storage solutions designed by Wolberry using Sony ODA. The purchase and maintenance costs of disk or LTO Tape over years becomes unreasonable. This also means that documents and data stored on disk or LTO Tape are migrated repeatedly throughout their life cycle, an aspect all too frequently forgotten in the cost–benefit analysis of digital preservation.
Disk Storage Vendors Love Forklift Upgrades
Whether you need to or not, storage vendors force customers to replace their storage systems every 3-4 years,
Many vendors appear cost effective by charging reasonable rates for maintenance work of around 10-12%/year for the first 3 years. Then when customers come back to renew their 4th-year maintenance, they get a surprise in the form of a very heavy maintenance bill. But the vendor’s real purpose is not to renew the contract. Rather, it’s to sell you a new storage system. How? They show you the maintenance bill in one hand, and in the other a quote for a brand-new array that costs about the same!
Other vendors discontinue their support of your existing systems. Engineered obsolescence means that a forklift upgrade is obligatory. Some storage platforms are designed to be difficult to expand or upgrade, so that many customers simply run out of either performance or capacity as their needs grow.
The result? You have no choice but to buy another storage array and pay another Forklift Upgrade.
Cloud long term storage costs are expensive over time
Cloud storage systems appear cheap at the beginning, but costs become accumulate over time. Most public cloud long term data storage services are based on LTO Tape technologies. Public cloud providers still need you to pay for technology refreshes in your cloud storage subscription costs.
Sony ODA media are guaranteed for 100 years and backward compatible
A one-time Sony ODA media purchase can last as long as you need to preserve your data, with no need for forklift migrations like other technologies as Sony guarantee backward compatibility. With no need for special environmental conditions you also save on power and cooling costs that are lowest in the industry and Climate Change friendly.
Sony ODA Total Cost Of Ownership are the lowest in the industry
Sony ODA your best long-term data storage
Sony Optical Disc Archive (ODA) backup and archive systems for many reasons:
- One-time media purchase no expensive fork-lift migrations every 3 to 4 years
- Once the data is written on Sony ODA media it cannot be changed meeting legal and regulatory compliance
- Sony guarantee ODA media for 100 years, with backward compatibility, so no forced forklift migrations very 3 or 4 years
- You can access your data in any random order and use artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning on your data with active archives
- It has fast transfer rates too (44Gbps), making it quicker than downloading data from the cloud on slow internet connections, great in disaster recovery or ransomware defence
- Unlike disk (NAS/SAN) or LTO tape it does not need expensive, controlled environmental conditions, making it eco-friendly
- Sony ODA, Object Storage solutions require little management and are virtually unlimited in scale
- You invest in the Sony ODA media once and can then use the data for 100 years knowing it is secure and quickly accessible when you need it again.
With our long-term data storage solutions, you can extend the life of your data for decades while keeping costs under control. Forget years of exorbitant maintenance contracts and devastating fork-lift upgrades. Your data will be safe in solutions designed exclusively for the purpose. You no longer need to migrate data from one storage system to another, with all the costs, wasted time and risk that this implies.
Wolberry are an independent IT consultancy partnering with many computer and cloud vendors to devise IT solutions that protect organisations valuable data and optimise the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure and systems. Your Sony ODA data storage solution could be the best investment you make in your business this year!
Contact Wolberry to find out how we can help you avoid Forklift Upgrades or Lower your Public Cloud ownership costs.