Patent ID: 8849782

Claim:
A data storage system for monitoring a tape infrastructure, comprising: a tape library comprising a plurality of tape drives and a plurality of tape media for use in the tape drives; a server communicatively linked to the tape library; a tape analytics database stored in a data storage device; on the server, a storage tape analytics application extracting data sets from the tape library corresponding to operations of the tape library including use of the tape drives and the tape media during data storage in the tape library, the storage tape analytics application storing the extracted data sets in the tape analytics database; and a user interface module providing a user interface for viewing data in the tape analytics database, wherein the user interface is operable to access operations data for the tape library and for the drives and the tape media in the tape library, wherein the extracted data sets include data about robotic actions to: mount media into the tape drives; dismount media from the tape drives; and move media inside, into, or out of the automated tape libraries, the extracted data sets further including data about activity of the tape drives while the tape media is mounted.