Majority of the companies have shifted their business operations to E-commerce. You need to secure the confidential information and other sensitive business data. Your data in not only vulnerable to on-line threats, but there are numerous other threats that can affect the data integrity such as software bugs, fire, power outage and hardware malfunctions.

One of the best approaches is periodic backups of these valuable data assets and no other technology can match the performance, reliability and economics of LTO (Linear Tape Open) format. The most distinguishing feature is the flexibility to use tape media with drives manufactured by different companies, in short users have the luxury of media interoperability.

The newest tape version of this firmly-established backup technology is LTO ultrium 5. It empowers your data center to take on the stiff challenges. Thanks to the remarkably enhanced data track density, the LTO-5 cartridge can easily retain twice the amount of information than LTO4 and almost four times the data of LTO3 media cartridge.  An enormous 1.50 TB / 3 TB data can be easily recorded with superior reliability on LTO5 tape.

You can improve the performance and storage value of your LTO5 tape system by incorporating the new breakthrough “Backup virtualization” technology. This innovative technology enhances the efficiency and accelerates the performance by abstracting the IT resources from the software and optimizes their communication. As a result, the backup/recovery time reduces significantly and you can enhance the productivity with fewer IT resources. With Backup virtualization, the I.T administrators can reduce the infrastructure complexity by controlling all devices from a single appliance.

For those who are interested in disk storage system can count on RDX technology. The market leading brands are HP, Imation and Quantum RDX cartridge systems. LTO is no doubt the industry’s best selling tape system. Other tape media formats that are serving the backup demands of today’s data-rich organizations are Travan, AIT (Advanced Intelligent Tape), DLT (Digital Linear Tape), DAT (Digital Audio Tape) and SDLT.

You simply compromise on data security, especially in today’s competitive business environment. LTO5 tape solution has the answer to your long term security demands as well. The built-in encryption system reduces the risk of malicious data access. Furthermore, if your LTO5 tape cartridges are stolen, I.T administrators can enjoy peace of mind because the data is encrypted with the 256-bit AES algorithm, making it simply impossible to break the code. So the customers can confidently preserve their LTO5 tapes at remote sites and share their confidential business information. You can also meet your compliance demands by utilizing the W.O.R.M functionality.

LTO5 drives support both WORM and non-WORM LTO-5 tapes. It is evident from its name, W.O.R.M (write once, read many), that you cannot make modifications to the data.  Integrating backup virtualization with LTO5 system will help reduce the quantity of tapes and drives. So the organizations won’t have to increase their data center space and can easily setup a reliable system for their growing data amounts.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of http://www.tape4backup.com. 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.

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