A Description Of Hp Lto2 Tape System, Engineered For The Storage Needs Of Business Enterprises

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Information technology has a characteristic that new products are introduced in the market after every now and then. Previously, backup storage systems were considered essential for large organizations, but now it is equally important for medium and small companies to install an ongoing backup system.The introduction of the Linear Tape open technology has proved to be the most reliable and efficient for data-rich organizations and has been well-received by the I.T managers because of its ability to offer more security, high speed, multi-vendor compatibility and scalable capacity.IT departments in various companies, not just in United States, but Middle East, Africa, Asia and other regions are always on the search for best backup systems.

There is great amount of vigilance among the IT managers to select the backup systems that are scalable, so that money is not wasted. The businesses operate on international level these days, so the companies are looking to employ technologies like the world-leading Linear Tape Open Technology (LTO) to get robust security and high-performance to do business in a cost effective manner. ...
... The LTO tapes are used for offsite storage.In order to minimize the effect of onsite destruction or other threats (virus, hackers, hardware failure etc), the data administrators trust LTO ultrium tape format.

HP-branded LTO2 tape system offers a good combination of high-performance features which set it apart from the rest of the tape systems available in the market. The HP C7972A is a compact LTO Ultrium 2 tape cartridge”.There are some features in the HP LTO2 tapewhich remain distinguishing characteristics of the HP.The length of the HP LTO2 tape is 609meters. There are other characteristics like the cartridge memory and self-diagnostic capacity which have made a considerable difference to the demands for the HP LTO2 tapes.

The HP LTO 2 media tape has a storage capacity of 200 gigabytes in native mode and a staggering 400 gigabytes in the compressed mode.The speed of the HP LTO2 tape drive reaches 40megabytes per second in the native state and doubles in compressed state, thus providing the speed required to manage operations with today’s commercial and database applications.Some of the other characteristics which need to be mentioned as well in order to give a complete description of what the HP C7972A, LTO2 tape has to offer to its users includes the longer working life, robust base film and compact size.

All of these superior attributes allow the customers to attain maximum value from their investment in tape media technology. The other and perhaps the most important characteristic is the price of the HP LTO2 tapes. The price of the tape is affordable and the product is considerably cheap. The first generation LTO 1 tapes can also be used for backup operations, which provide LTO-1 customers a seamless migration path. HP has intelligently engineered its LTO 2 drives to support LTO1 tapes for data recording and also extract the stored data with superior reliability.So backup your data assets with this efficient HP LTO-2 system and reduce your operational expenses.

Mark Paul is the marketing manager of odsi and publish article on LTO 2 media tape and HP C7972A.

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