ProtecTIER licensing tips Capacity representation in the ProtecTIER Manager GUI This section contains tips regarding to the capacity licensing of ProtecTIER. The information  described here was gathered from the most common questions that are associated with  implementation of a ProtecTIER system. For more information, contact your IBM sales representative. The ProtecTIER Manager GUI displays capacity information in the following format: Both units of measurement are usually used as synonyms; however, knowing the exact  values of both scales is important. It explains why 1TB is approximately 1.1 TiB and it also  explains the numbers displayed by the ProtecTIER Manager GUI.  Figure A-6 shows an example of capacity representation in the ProtecTIER Manager GUI. GLYPH<SM590000> A terabyte (TB) in contrast, is defined as 10$^{12 }$bytes, which equals 1 000 000 000 000  bytes. GLYPH<SM590000> A tebibyte (TiB) is defined as a multiple of the byte data unit. More specifically, 1 TiB  equals 2$^{40 }$bytes or 1024 gibibytes (GiB), which equals 1 099 511 627 776 bytes. 1 2 3 Figure A-6 Capacity view in the ProtecTIER Manager GUI 454  IBM ProtecTIER Implementation and Best Practices Guide