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Smarter Media Management
Who are eMediaplus?
• New UK Start-up with Investment• Working in partnership with Emedia Plus USA• Different tape proposal to customers• Providing environmentally robust tape media services to
eradicate tape media in landfill• Tape Media Services include new and recertified• Complete tape management services
• Market for Tape Recycling Services• USA – Over $60M in tape re-use and refurbishment• Africa – Over $10M in tape re-use• Europe - $0M!
Mission Statement
1. Reduce our clients tape media and management costs significantly through re-use, refurbishment and recycling.
2. To eradicate landfill caused by crushed tape media.
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Save Cost and Save the Environment
• The ‘green’ message!> Tape is environmentally bad. It is made up of
hard and soft plastics, metals such as chromium, ferrous, etc
> All used tape is currently shredded and dumped in landfill
> Landfill leakage of heavy metals is dangerous> 60% of WEE waste is exported to developing
countries
• There is an alternative that will save money, ensure data is eradicated and will preserve the environment
• Refilling and recycling photocopier toners is standard practice so why not apply the principle to tape media
New Media Supply
• Supply of all formats of tape media• Very competitive pricing • Can be included in buy-back program• All formats available
> LTO-x, SDLT, DLT, AIT, QIC, 4mm. 3490, 3590, etc.
• All brands available> Imation, Sony, HP, Fuji, etc
• Supplied on short turnaround
Recertified or Dual Life Media
• Recertified tape is previously used media that has been put through a stringent refurbishment process
• 100% full length tested, 12 point inspected, 4 pass data erasure, data sanitised, drive tested, repackaged.
• All current and legacy formats available including reel-to-reel
• Guaranteed:> 90 days satisfaction guarantee> 1 year system level performance > Lifetime material and workmanship guaranteed
• Between 20-50% cheaper than new media• No tape ends up in landfill• Full ECO- certification process
Where to use recertified media
• Many organisations have backup operations and archive• Tape media is guaranteed for up to 30,000 read / write
operations• Backup tape is used many times over whereas archive media
is written once and read rarely.• Archive media is then usually crushed once the archive has
expired• Using recertified media for archives can reduce tape costs
considerably• Supporting archives on latest technology can also be
expensive. So using older technology for long term archive with guaranteed availability can also reduce operational costs.
Media Buy Back Program
• Emediaplus will buy your old tape media• Improve your tape TCO by selling media for cash or credits• Data eradication included within buy back• Credits can be used against new media or recertified media
purchases• By selling your tape, you are helping the environment as no tape
goes to landfill• Reduce your costs for data eradication and tape disposal
Format Qty Buy back value
New Media Price
Re-cert Price
New Price with credit
Re-cert Price with credit
LTO3 500 $2000 12,500 $8,200 $10,500 $6,200
SDLT 320
200 $200 6000 $4000 $5800 $5600
18,500 12,200 $16,300 $11,800
Data Eradication
• Clients are concerned over data eradication• Crushing, although environmentally abhorrent does eradicate
the data• eMediaplus has developed a stringent process to ensure all
recertified tapes are as ‘good as new’• eMediatplus has developed proprietary technology to
eradicate data where degauss is not permissible• Independent verification of data eradication from Kroll Ontrack• ‘No data could be retrieved’
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Data Eradication Process
Receive cartridges into secured area
Unpack, scan and provide customer with Vol-ID listing of tapes received
Sort, count, inspect and extract unacceptable cartridges
Process through Tier 3 Data Eradication units to completely erase all data tracks
Degauss Cartridges and Discard unacceptable cartridges into recycling system. Provide Data Destruction Certificate and send to supplying customer.
Obtain flat file list of Volume Id’s and ship to E-Media Plus
Receive customer verification to proceed with processing
* Some tapes (LTO-x) cannot be degaussed. Specialist data track eradication equipment is used.
Overwrite with “1’s”s and “0’s” full length on production drives and extract unacceptable cartridges
Production and QC staff perform audit of completed cartridges
Provide customer with Data Eradication Certificate ensuring all data has been eradicated.
Degauss and discard unacceptable cartridges into recycling system,
Remove all non-permanent labels such as Volume ID numbers
Data Eradication Process - contd
Media Services
• Complete tape managed services available• Supply and recycling of all media needs• Off-site vaulting of tapes for archiving and DR available• Protection to level 6 • Local service means timely retrieval and storage• Data migration to and from different tape media available
Summary and next steps
• eMediaplus is committed to better tape media services to reduce cost
• eMediaplus is committed to reducing environmental impact of IT consumables
• Give us a try:-> Review your tape costs and processes to develop a TCO for tape > Assess acquisition, management and disposal costs to reduce tape
TCO> Take a sample of recertified media and test it> Try the data eradication and certification process> Provide a quotation for tape buy-back to create a new revenue stream.
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