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Data protection with the LTO4 ultrium tape cartridge
Shawn Paul
Tape4Backup
In this modern environment of business, both the customers (external & internal) are interested in all kind of the information related to the business. Therefore, the enterprises have to make sure that the customers get their required information in time and also the information should be up-to-date. So, the need arises to safely store and protect the valuable data. The overall performance is important part in the "continuity management" of the business enterprise.
The performance and capacity of the fourth generation of LTO ultrium tape is enhanced as compared to the previous generations. Now, the customers can store large volumes of data and can still get high data transfer speed.
According to the findings by the IDC, the sales of the LTO ultrium tape products have doubled during the year 2007. This shows that the LTO tape products are preferred by the enterprises all over the world. The main reason for this growth in sales is that the LTO tape products save the operational cost, increase the overall performance and secure the valuable data.
According to the report the shipment of the midrange tape drives rose 10% in the year 2007 while the shipment of the tape drives of LTO increased 15%. The report of IDC stated that the shipment of the LTO drives in the year 2007 were worth over 883 million dollars. The increase in sales of the LTO tape products shows that they save the cost and provide the efficient results for data security and protection. The need is emerging for the high capacity, high speed and efficient storage mediums. The fourth generation of the LTO tape format has the archiving feature that is needed to fulfill the demand for high data storage. The LTO tape products consume less energy and therefore, they give the "Green Backup Solution" for the data centers of the enterprises.
The LTO backup tape cartridges have high data recording capacity of 1.6 Terabytes. The ratio of compressed to native data recording is 2:1. The LTO 4 data tapes have the new WORM technology. This WORM technology saves the cost and records the data in the non rewritable form. The LTO tape drive has the encryption technology, so that the data can be protected and secured from unauthorized use. LTO ultrium tape drives have encryption technology of 256 bit "AES-GCM". Therefore, it has the capability to write the encrypted data on to the tape cartridges of LTO. The fourth generation LTO tapes are backward compatible with the previous third generation for both reading and writing. The LTO-4 drive can read the data from LTO-2 tape cartridge so, in this way the LTO ultrium backup tape media products protect and save the investment made by the enterprises.
The LTO is actually a reliable, adaptable and powerful backup tape format. The major companies like the IBM and Hewlett-Packard are introducing new features and technologies to cope up with the increasing demand of data storage the server environments of midrange.
The LTO backup tape format delivers the best results with high efficient reliability and performance. The LTO tape format also provides the benefits of the linear "bi directional" and the "multi channel formats". It has the additional powerful features of "Track layout", "Error correction" and "Data compression". The future roadmap of the LTO tape format is well defined for increased recording capacity and data transfer speed.
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Article submitted Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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