IBM Tape Solutions

The Smart Path to Secure and Sustainable Data Storage

The Challenge of the Future: Data is Growing – but not Everything Needs to be Online

The amount of data in the world is growing exponentially. At the same time, more than half of all corporate data is “cold” – it is rarely used but must be preserved securely and reliably for many years.
Here, IBM Tape Solutions offers the most cost-effective, secure, and energy-efficient solution on the market

Why Tape Storage is Smarter than Ever

Download the Report: Tape Quantum-Safe Archive Infrastructure

Discover how IBM’s tape solutions create a future-proof archive with quantum-safe encryption, air-gap protection, and minimal energy consumption.
Download the report and see how tape can become the most secure, sustainable, and cost-effective foundation for your data storage.

Secure Storage with Air-Gap and Ransomware Protection

IBM’s tape technology is based on the principle of air-gap – physical separation between the data and the network. This means that the tapes cannot be accessed or infected by cyberattacks.
With Safeguarded Tape and automated air-gap management, an extra layer of protection is created, making the tapes the last line of defense against ransomware.

Protect your data with air-gap and logical isolation – completely without manual handling.

Quantum-safe Encryption – Ready for the Threats of the Future

When quantum computers become a reality, today’s encryption is threatened. Therefore, IBM has already introduced post-quantum-safe technology in its tape solutions.
With hardware-based AES-256 encryption and new standards such as CRYSTALS-KEM and ML-DSA (NIST 2024), IBM Tape is ready to protect your data even in the quantum era.

IBM is the first in the world with quantum-safe storage on tape – the archive of the future is already here.

High Capacity, Low Cost, Minimal Energy

A modern LTO or IBM Enterprise tape can store up to 45 TB per cartridge (compressed), and future generations will exceed 300 TB.
Unlike disks and SSDs, tapes draw almost no power when not in use – up to 800 times less energy according to independent studies.

Store more data at a fraction of the cost – and save energy to boot.

Benefits of IBM Tape Solutions

  • Cost-effective: lowest price per TB for long-term storage.

  • Secure: physical and logical isolation from cyber threats.

  • Sustainable: minimal energy consumption and long lifespan (30+ years).

  • Scalable: handles exabyte levels of data for modern data centers.

  • Future-proof: ready for post-quantum encryption and new standards.

Typical Applications

  • Archiving of business-critical data

  • Ransomware-resilient backups

  • Long-term preservation for research, media and government

  • Offsite backup and data center recovery

  • Hybrid and multicloud integration

IBM Tape in Practice

From TS4300 for smaller environments to TS4500 and Diamondback for hyperscalers – IBM Tape is suitable for anyone who wants to combine security, performance and sustainability in a flexible infrastructure.
IBM’s solutions integrate seamlessly with IBM Storage Protect, Spectrum Archive and Open-Source-ISVs, making them easy to implement in existing IT environments.

Why LOAD

As an IBM Platinum Partner, LOAD helps Swedish companies implement solutions that match their needs for performance, security, and easy operation.
We offer consulting, design, implementation, and proactive support – so you can focus on business instead of infrastructure.