Backup The Medium-sized Data Center At A Faster Rate With Dell’s Lto 4 Tape

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Whenever a business thinks about updating its backup technology it is exposed to several options. The backup industry is flooded with products making it extremely difficult for a business to decide on one particular product. When taking a quick glance almost all products seem to offer the similar features but have different prices. Unfortunately, this is the common mistake made by businesses, when deciding on a backup technology product, they try to make their decision by taking a quick glance, but the devil is indeed in the details. Businesses do not take this decision very seriously, they think, the job of the medium is just to backup data so why waste time in doing some background research. These businesses fail to realize that mediums of backup technology today do more than just create a duplicate copy of the data. Backup technology today has become very advanced and intelligent, it does a lot more than just create a copy of data, and it adds value to the business by making it more efficient and by increasing its effectiveness. A perfect example of intelligent backup technology is Linear Tape Open technology. This form ...
... of backup technology was created by the pioneers of Information Technology industry, HP, IBM and Seagate. Linear Tape Open technology has been such a success in the business world that it has not launched its fourth generation of products.

LTO4 tape is the most intellignet outcome of LTO technology’s innovation and it is twice as much better than its ancestor. The third generation of LTO could store around 400 GB of raw data but this lto4 tape can store around 800 GB. If for a business this capacity is not sufficient then it need not worry and just make use of the compression feature which enhances the storage capacity of the tape to 1600 GB. Backup tapes that allow businesses to store 1600GB of data charge such high prices that business suffer from a financial constraint. The best feature of Dell LTO4 tape is that it is priced at the level of 800 GB but offers up to 1600 GB, making it worth the money you spent. The processing speed of the tape is as impressive as its storage capacity, which is, 120 Megabytes’ per second. This speed is sufficient to ensure that the data is processed regularly without any disruption or disturbance.

Dell LTO4 tape also provides its customer with extremely innovative features such as the WORM feature. WORM like most people know stands for Write once Read Many feature. The idea behind this feature was to ensure the authenticity of the data that is backed up on the tape. It is very easy for anyone who has access to the backup tapes to change or modify the backed up data, but this will no longer be possible with the WORM feature. This feature ensures that once the data is entered into the tape it cannot be edited or altered. Of course the data may be viewed as many times as desired but it cannot be changed.

Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of www.backuptapes.net and markets HP LTO 6. 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.

Frank Miller
Backuptapes.net
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San Ramon CA 94583-4409
Tel: 888-686-8273
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: sales@backuptapes.net