An integral part of your data protection strategy
Physical tape is uniquely qualified for long-term information archival.
As data governance requirements continue to escalate, you need to store more types of data (e-mail, instant messages, website content, documents and financial records) for longer periods of time. In some cases, information must be preserved forever. While it may seem logical to use one medium for all your storage needs, each step along the data protection continuum has different requirements. For active data and for very quick recovery, online disk storage is the preferred media, providing real-time access. But for long-term data protection where real-time access is not required—as well as for offsite storage, compliance, business continuity and storing large volumes of unstructured files—tape media remains a first-rate choice.
Tape media is the cost-effective answer for storing your “information tsunami.”
Today, every company is interested in driving down costs. One way to achieve that goal is to use tape media for archiving files that are inactive. In the grand scheme of things, tape cartridges are more cost effective to purchase, and tape is less expensive in terms of the management and energy required to preserve the archive.
In a recent white paper from the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program, David Reine and Mike Kahn of The Clipper Group looked at total costs of ownership over a five-year period for the long-term storage of data in tiered disk-to-disk-to-tape versus disk-to-disk solutions. Factoring in acquisition costs of equipment and media, as well as electricity and data center floor space, The Clipper Group found that the total cost of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk solutions was about 23 times more expensive than tape solutions for archiving.2
Tape storage can provide a virus and data corruption-free repository.
According to Computer Technology Review, the monthly rate of computer virus infection in U.S. and European companies grew from 10 per 1000 PCs in 1996 to 105 per 1000 PCs in 2007. Now more than ever, you need to protect your information assets from assault. Disk storage providing mirroring, snapshots and clones can help you recover from a malicious attack. But did you know that a disk snapshot of a virus-infected server remains part of the file system, and the virus is still capable of damaging and destroying data? An archive tape recorded before the infection will not contain the virus. In addition, a virus on tape cannot infect other data on the tape, and the virus can’t spread to other tapes within the library.
Tape storage is “green” storage.
Reducing environmental impact is a major objective not only for computer manufacturers, but also for consumers like you. We all search for innovative ways to lower energy consumption and decrease the carbon footprint of our data centers. Including tape media in your data protection plans can help you accomplish that goal. Disk drives consume electricity to power and cool them, regardless of whether the devices are being accessed. Tape drives, on the other hand, use little power when not reading or writing tape cartridges, and tape cartridges stored in an automated library use no power at all. The Clipper Group’s recent LTO Program study found that over a five-year study period the cost of energy for disk is about 290 times more than tape.3
Today’s tape storage is bigger, better, faster and more reliable than before.
If you thought tape technology was on the decline, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that it’s growing at a phenomenal rate. The latest LTO data technology provides outstanding data integrity characteristics, massive compression and ultra-fast data rates.
* 1600GB of compressed data on an LTO-4 data cartridge, growing to 6400GB in LTO-5
* Mean time between failures (MTBF) of 250,000 hours at 100 percent duty cycle, making LTO-4 drives about 700 percent more reliable than the first-generation digital data storage (DDS) drive
* Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)-256-level encryption for enhanced security
* Excellent resistance to shock/drops, with only 9 percent of tape cartridges failing after being dropped from a height of one meter, compared to 99 percent of disk drives failing
* Exceptional durability, as exhibited in a harsh test environment; Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM) HP Ultrium LTO-3 cartridges survived the equivalent of 30 years with no loss of function
* 120MB per second native drive data rate, enabling you to stream up to 864GB of compressed data per hour (providing your server can keep up)
HP is a major player in delivering data protection solutions worldwide.
It may surprise you that over the last 25 years, HP has delivered thousands of data protection solutions, shipped over 15.9 billion gigabytes of tape medium, and handled thousands of business interruptions and disasters worldwide. An IDC study in February 2008 reported that over one out of every three branded tape drives and one out of every three branded tape automation units were shipped from HP.1 Today, more than 80 percent of the world’s stock exchanges and worldwide banking institutions depend on HP solutions—and you can, too. Working from a proven disaster-recovery reference model, HP applies outstanding service practices defined by the de facto industry standard for IT management, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Add to this over 140,000 HP Partners around the globe, and your data is protected—from start to finish.
source : HP
Physical tape is uniquely qualified for long-term information archival.
As data governance requirements continue to escalate, you need to store more types of data (e-mail, instant messages, website content, documents and financial records) for longer periods of time. In some cases, information must be preserved forever. While it may seem logical to use one medium for all your storage needs, each step along the data protection continuum has different requirements. For active data and for very quick recovery, online disk storage is the preferred media, providing real-time access. But for long-term data protection where real-time access is not required—as well as for offsite storage, compliance, business continuity and storing large volumes of unstructured files—tape media remains a first-rate choice.
Tape media is the cost-effective answer for storing your “information tsunami.”
Today, every company is interested in driving down costs. One way to achieve that goal is to use tape media for archiving files that are inactive. In the grand scheme of things, tape cartridges are more cost effective to purchase, and tape is less expensive in terms of the management and energy required to preserve the archive.
In a recent white paper from the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Program, David Reine and Mike Kahn of The Clipper Group looked at total costs of ownership over a five-year period for the long-term storage of data in tiered disk-to-disk-to-tape versus disk-to-disk solutions. Factoring in acquisition costs of equipment and media, as well as electricity and data center floor space, The Clipper Group found that the total cost of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) disk solutions was about 23 times more expensive than tape solutions for archiving.2
Tape storage can provide a virus and data corruption-free repository.
According to Computer Technology Review, the monthly rate of computer virus infection in U.S. and European companies grew from 10 per 1000 PCs in 1996 to 105 per 1000 PCs in 2007. Now more than ever, you need to protect your information assets from assault. Disk storage providing mirroring, snapshots and clones can help you recover from a malicious attack. But did you know that a disk snapshot of a virus-infected server remains part of the file system, and the virus is still capable of damaging and destroying data? An archive tape recorded before the infection will not contain the virus. In addition, a virus on tape cannot infect other data on the tape, and the virus can’t spread to other tapes within the library.
Tape storage is “green” storage.
Reducing environmental impact is a major objective not only for computer manufacturers, but also for consumers like you. We all search for innovative ways to lower energy consumption and decrease the carbon footprint of our data centers. Including tape media in your data protection plans can help you accomplish that goal. Disk drives consume electricity to power and cool them, regardless of whether the devices are being accessed. Tape drives, on the other hand, use little power when not reading or writing tape cartridges, and tape cartridges stored in an automated library use no power at all. The Clipper Group’s recent LTO Program study found that over a five-year study period the cost of energy for disk is about 290 times more than tape.3
Today’s tape storage is bigger, better, faster and more reliable than before.
If you thought tape technology was on the decline, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that it’s growing at a phenomenal rate. The latest LTO data technology provides outstanding data integrity characteristics, massive compression and ultra-fast data rates.
* 1600GB of compressed data on an LTO-4 data cartridge, growing to 6400GB in LTO-5
* Mean time between failures (MTBF) of 250,000 hours at 100 percent duty cycle, making LTO-4 drives about 700 percent more reliable than the first-generation digital data storage (DDS) drive
* Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)-256-level encryption for enhanced security
* Excellent resistance to shock/drops, with only 9 percent of tape cartridges failing after being dropped from a height of one meter, compared to 99 percent of disk drives failing
* Exceptional durability, as exhibited in a harsh test environment; Write-Once, Read-Many (WORM) HP Ultrium LTO-3 cartridges survived the equivalent of 30 years with no loss of function
* 120MB per second native drive data rate, enabling you to stream up to 864GB of compressed data per hour (providing your server can keep up)
HP is a major player in delivering data protection solutions worldwide.
It may surprise you that over the last 25 years, HP has delivered thousands of data protection solutions, shipped over 15.9 billion gigabytes of tape medium, and handled thousands of business interruptions and disasters worldwide. An IDC study in February 2008 reported that over one out of every three branded tape drives and one out of every three branded tape automation units were shipped from HP.1 Today, more than 80 percent of the world’s stock exchanges and worldwide banking institutions depend on HP solutions—and you can, too. Working from a proven disaster-recovery reference model, HP applies outstanding service practices defined by the de facto industry standard for IT management, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Add to this over 140,000 HP Partners around the globe, and your data is protected—from start to finish.
source : HP
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