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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