Superior Data Reliability And Low-cost Backup Storage By Dell Lto3 Tape

By Author: Mark Paul
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Every coin has two sides, and of course, modernization has affected the lives of each and every individual as positively as possible but it also a downside to it. People are no longer just dependent on technology but now they are enslaved by it. The life of an average individual can’t function smoothly without his or her technical gadgets. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that same is true for the business world. Earlier, organizations had to keep a record of all the information related to the business manually and store it gigantic ledgers.

As the scale of operations for businesses increased from local to domestic to international the amount of information that needed to be stored also increase dramatically. Businesses computerized themselves completely to solve this problem but the use of computers brought a whole new set of problems. A computer as efficient as it was, at the end of the day is a machine that experienced difficulties every other day. When the computers stopped running, which meant the business had to stop its operations and lose all important information permanently.

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... of the problem invited research on the issue. IBM, Seagate and Hewlett Packard joined forced to develop a technology that will permanently solve this problem and revolutionize the business world. The year 1990 marked the launch of Linear Tape Open technology. Dell LTO3 tape system was introduced in 2004. This was the third generation tape of Linear Tape Open technology and all the businesses were anxiously waiting for its launch, because it was going to bring to them WORM technology.

With the installation of Dell LTO ultrium 3 tape format, businesses could protect the important business data, because once the data was entered into the WORM (write once, read many) tape, it could not be edited and changed. The tape drive other than providing security to data allowed businesses to access their data multiple times as smoothly as possible.

The basic features of the tape also attracted a lot of attention. Dell LTO3 media tape had double the storage capacity of the older generation of Linear Tape Open Technology. The tape backed up 200 GB of native data and with compression 400 GB of data. The processing speed of the tape also complements the storage capacity. The tape processes raw data at 80 Megabytes’ per second where as compressed data at 160 Megabytes’ per second.

Dell LTO3, 0HC591 tape was also more compact than competitors which allowed businesses to save shelf space. This extra space was used more productively and beneficially. Dell LTO3 tape had a lot of hype attached to it so businesses started assuming that it will be a costly product. The tape introduced new technology and provided highest levels of data storage and processing speed. However the price of the product was kept at a reasonable level. The reason behind this was to make available the product to most businesses so that they could enjoy the perks of innovation and efficiency so that the business world would boom and prosper.

Business enterprises trust Odsi.co.uk that is well-renowned for the exquisite range of tape media products. So all of your storage needs can be cost efficiently fulfilled with our high quality backup products.

Mark Paul
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