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ESG White Paper: Archive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Date : 3/4/2011
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Five-Year TCO Comparing Dell DX to Tape and NAS for Long-Term Archive

Keeping up with the ever-growing amount of unstructured digital data is a top challenge cited by IT managers who have storage planning and buying responsibilities. Not only must archiving adhere to legally mandated retention policies, in-house records management schedules and other strict guidelines, but it also must be cost-effective.

In this paper, Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) compares the Dell™ DX Object Storage Platform with tape and network attached storage (NAS) alternatives. The comparison examines projected 5-year cost of ownership as well as other important considerations that go into the archiving platform purchasing decision.

ESG concludes that the Dell DX Object Storage Platform not only is less expensive over time but also offers the following advantages:

  • Massively scalable
  • Optimized for density
  • Power-saving
  • Space-saving
  • Future-proof architecture
  • Intelligent object replication