Public organizations, financial institutions and business enterprises cannot deny their absolute dependency on their data. Regulatory compliance coupled with increased pressure due to exponential data growth is forcing the organizations to preserve their data and ensure their integrity over longer time periods.
The right solution for the burgeoning backup demands is the LTO ultrium technology. LTO format has been intelligently engineered keeping in mind the users’ evolving needs. LTO tape cartridges are based on single-reel architecture with a half inch tape. This is a smart approach which provides greater amount of tape area and maintains a small form factor, thus boosting the recording capacity and saving valuable floor & shelf space.
Data administrators of leading companies and data-rich organizations trust the HP-branded data protection solutions. HP LTO2 tape technology is ideally designed to meet the needs of small & mid-range businesses, desktop workstations and departmental servers.
Increased recording performance and media capacity helps to reduce space, operating cost and human intervention needed for daily backup operations. That is why the media capacity of HP LTO2 tape has been increased by 100% over the LTO-1 ultrium format. Un-compressed 200GB data can be packed on a HP LTO-2 ultrium cartridge. Additionally, you can enjoy even higher backup performance with the remarkable 2:1 data compression capability of HP LTO 2 drives. This will facilitate the customers to carry out their storage & archival operations with fewer LTO-2 tapes, thus resulting in reduced operating costs and improved performance throughout the organization.
HP also offers industry leading AIT-2 cartridge, part number Q1998A, which is an economical option for SMB segment. In order to handle the increased data volumes, the organizations are forced to migrate to the higher capacity backup solutions. The organizations also want to take advantage of their previous I.T resources. Therefore HP has included the backward compatibility feature in LTO2 drives, which creates superior value by performing read-write operations on both LTO2 and LTO1 data tapes.
Robust HP LTO-2 cartridge offers an amazing storage life of 30 years. Specific information about the backup tape (usage history, file log, error report) is required by the drive to elevate the performance level. This cartridge specific information is held by a small built-in cartridge memory, which is an integral component of each LTO ultrium tape. HP LTO-2 drives are built tough to withstand high duty cycles at an incredible compressed rate of 172 GB per hour.
Popular backup tapes developed by HP are listed below:
HP LTO2 tape
C7972A
HP DLT-4 tape
C5141F
HP AIT-3 tape
Q1999A
HP LTO5 tape
C7975A
HP DAT -320
Q2032A
HP RDX cartridge
Q2042A
Q2043A
HP SDLT2 tape
Q2020A
HP LTO-1 ultrium tape
C7971A
HP AIT-1 tape
Q1997A
SAS and SCSI interfaces are supported by HP LTO 2 drives. Good news is that the industry’s top ranked backup software are supported by HP LTO2 drives including NovaBackup, Tivoli TSM, Dantz Retrospect, Legato Networker, Yosemite TapeWare, BrightStor ARCServe IT, VERITAS Backup Exec and HP OpenView Data Protector. HP has intelligently designed its LTO-2 tape devices to provide affordable data protection solution with the prefect mix of latest host interfaces.
HP LTO-2 is indeed a smart investment, which is best for economical data storage and satisfaction of strict data legislations. Solid LTO roadmap and ongoing innovation of HP ensures that your company is well-equipped to face the evolving data storage needs. All product and software names throughout this article are trademarks and are sole-property of their owners.
Author Resource:-
Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets HP LTO2 Tape and HP Q1998A Tape. He has vast experience in the marketing and trading industries and has been helping buyers who have the backup needs and guide clients about the technology.
Rob Miller
34972 Newark Blvd,# 501,Newark CA 94560
Tel: 888-491-4949
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: rob@tape4backup.com
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