Remote backup

Data security needs and complex regulations have transformed the data recovery and backup process and have set new standards for data archiving & data encryption. Many enterprises are making amendments to their business strategies for the management of information life cycle to fulfill the legislative instructions that dictate as how to record the information and time period for the information to be retained. It is the requirement of the service-level agreements that the companies should establish safe and secure mechanisms for end users, customers and stock holders to access the critical and valuable company records. Companies also have to ensure that at the same time the overall company infrastructure of data storage has the ability to expand cost effectively, flexibly in quick time. Disk can be ideal choice for the purpose of online data storage, but the data tape remains vital and important component of the company’s overall management strategy of information life cycle specifically for business continuance, regulatory conformity and data retention.

Dell LTO-4 backup tape products provide exceptional performance and data security tools to speed up regulatory compliance, routine backups of data center and business continuance. Its reliable features include 120Mb/s (native speed), 800GB of native space for recording data and data encryption mechanism. LTO-3 ultrium specification is also known as the super ½ inch backup tape drive technology. Each of the backup tape formats have their own disadvantages and advantage like the helical scan mechanism in the SAIT tape drives that help to lower the tape wear. Vendor lock-in is the major difference among LTO ultrium format and other tape technologies of SDLT and Super AIT. Manufacturers of other media and backup tape technologies can license LTO ultrium-3 technology from the organization of LTO program that is controlled by Certance, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. This is the major reason of the creation of LTO ultrium specification and also assisted to keep down the prices of media.

LTO ultrium3 tape drives have the capability to read tape cartridges of all the 3 tape version of LTO ultrium but can write only to the tape cartridges of second and third generation. LTO3 also features WORM technology for further assistance in the protection of valuable data. LTO ultrium-4 has the new reliable and advanced technology of encryption for addressing the data security issues. This powerful feature helps to write encrypted data to the ultrium data cartridges and the encryption keys secure the transportation and storage of sensitive and critical information. LTO-4 tape technology provides innovative data encryption tools that enable better protection of company’s valuable data. Dell LTO-4 tape format enables the organizations to perform their data backup operations at lower cost with high level of durability, performance and effectiveness. Data security needs and complex regulations have transformed the data recovery and backup process and have set new standards for data archiving & data encryption.

As the data security issues are becoming more prominent, therefore LTO ultrium program is continuously providing innovative and efficient backup storage solutions according to the demands of storage managers and security standards. Capacity of the LTO ultrium4 reaches 1600GB and 240MB per second of transfer rate with assumed data compression of 2:1. It also has the WORM feature and is also available in the LTO-3 tape format. This feature offers cost effective mechanism for storage of information in non-rewritable arrangement for addressing the compliance needs. Dell LTO-4 tape format enables the organizations to perform their data backup operations at lower cost with high level of durability, performance and effectiveness.

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