Data Distribution
eMag has an impressive range of capabilities for handling magnetic tapes in a multitude of tape formats, and we have the ability to convert these into a usable, readable format for Customers or Suppliers. We also have a policy of attempting to be the last supplier of legacy media and are therefore in a good position to help clients source older media, and finally when the time comes, to migrate away from the legacy media.
One problem facing many of our clients is the need to continue using older technology long past the time when it makes economic sense to do so. The client is often held to this technology by a combination of the following factors:
- Cost of exiting the technology
- Their clients requiring data in a particular format
- Their suppliers sending data in a particular format
- Project resource to make a change
- Existing maintenance contracts
eMag has the solution, and in almost all cases we are finding the ROI for the client to be the same the day they switch to eMag's data distribution service. Some of the largest, most prestigious data centers of the world are already using eMag Solutions' Data Distribution Service.
Take the following Scenario that could apply to any other Tape Technology:
You have 4 9-track tape drives occupying 30 square feet of data center floor space, with controller. You have to keep them because 5 of your clients require small tax data sent to them monthly in open reel (9-track) format. You are paying over $10,000 per year to maintain the hardware. You have a few people employed who manage the distribution of the data on a weekly and monthly basis. You are only handling about twenty tapes per month. The drives are unreliable, because they are old, and you often supply data late as a result. They consume a lot of Power.
In this scenario you are paying more than $500 per open reel (9-track) tape to send to a client. eMag can quickly help that figure become less than 10% of the cost while providing a better service for your client.
How? Read On.
You send us the 9-track data to our Atlanta data center, but written on their media of choice, say 3480's. eMag converts this data to a media format of the client's choice, maybe 9- track or CDr. eMag converts the data necessary to be fully usable to the client. eMag sends the converted media to the client and sends a completion report to you.
As simple as that, and when you are happy the process is working satisfactorily you switch off your 9-track tape drives, cancel your maintenance contracts, redirect your resource, reduce your power bill, increase your profits, provide a better service to your clients and sleep better. But unfortunately you now have the extra room for those 20 new servers to add to your farm...
eMag has people ready to manage this project and to make the transition easy for you as there will be some significant up front project management.