# TCO Report

## TCO REPORT: Tape vs Object Storage

### *Learn the Economic Advantages of Object Storage vs. LTO for Media Active Archives*

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*IDC predicts that by 2020, the digital universe of data will increase a thousandfold to 44 zettabytes.*

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The limitations of tape storage go way beyond its lack of scalability. Data that isn’t searchable is becoming a tangible liability for businesses, and one that will only become larger with advances in AI and machine learning.

![image](https://cloudian.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/tco-inset.jpg)In this paper, we examine how object storage stacks up against LTO tape for media archives and backup. In addition to a detailed total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis covering both capital and operational expenses, this paper will look at the opportunity costs of not leveraging the real-time data access of object storage to monetize existing data.

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