Enjoy Long Term Reliability With Hp Lto-3 Backup Tape Solution

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In today’s world of E-commerce, the organizations are creating mountains of data each day. Therefore, an on-going backup storage routine has become business critical.

The LTO tape media format satisfies the rigorous backup storage and long term data protection needs of today’s I.T environments. Seagate, IBM and Hewlett-Packard are the co-inventors of LTO format. As its name says, LTO tape technology is an open standard that offers competitive prices, fewer integration headaches and media interoperability.

HP LTO tape products provide the capacity, performance and durability to address the demands of commercial applications. HP LTO-3 tape is an optimal solution for high end workstations, medium sized organizations, supply chain management and small businesses. HP understands the customer needs and carefully designs its products with compatibility and durability in mind. That is why HP has engineered its LTO-3 tape drives in full-height and half-height models. So the IT managers can flexibly choose the drive model that is perfect for their I.T infrastructure. HP Ultrium-960 tape drive represents full-height ...
... whereas Ultrium-920 drive is based on half-height form factor.

HP LTO-3 cartridge offers an enormous 400GB capacity in native mode. You can store double the amount of data by compressing the information. HP LTO3 drives deliver 2 to 1 compression capability, which means up to 800 GB compressed information can be backed up onto LTO 3 tape. WORM is an advantageous functionality that enables the LTO-3 customers to satisfy the data retention laws. WORM (write-once, read-many) as its name suggests, does not allow over-writings and alterations. HP LTO3 drive features a remarkable 80MB/s native data transfer speed, and are optimized for use in data rich applications such as data mining and video/audio archiving.

HP is offering a broad range of backup solutions for medium & small businesses. Few of them are listed here:

C8011A, HP DAT-160 tape
Q1999A, HP AIT 3 tape
C7972A, HP LTO 2 tape
C8010A, HP DAT-72 tape
Q2020A, HP SDLT 2 tape
C5141F, HP DLT 4 tape
C7971A, HP LTO 1 tape

HP has designed an exhaustive media testing program that ensures superior performance of tape media with multiple drives. The backup tape devices are tested in different severe working conditions, which provide customers complete assurance that their HP products will perform excellently and deliver higher operating efficiency.

Customers of LTO-2 and LTO-1 technologies can extend their investment by adopting the high capacity LTO-3 format. The HP LTO3 drive provides rapid access to both LTO-1 and LTO2 media. LTO3 drive can write/read LTO-2 media, and read the LTO-1 backup tapes. As your business grows, you can migrate to the HP’s next generation LTO-5 or LTO4 solution without losing your grip on previous generation LTO media.

HP LTO5 backup tape provides remarkable 3TB (compressed) capacity and HP LTO-4 delivers up to 1600GB compressed capacity.

IT managers can count on HP LTO-3 solution’s proven performance and reliability, and ensure robust data protection at the best price.

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Frank Miller is the Marketing Manager of Backuptape and markets LTO 3 tape and Backuptapes.net. 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
3984 Washington Blvd #503 Fremont CA 94538
Tel: 888-686-8273
Fax: 888-449-5050
Email: sales@backuptapes.net