LTO tape is being used as a secondary backup storage media, as hard disks are being increasingly used as the main backup device.
Storing backup data in the cloud kind of makes sense as you have elastic storage. Whilst restoring small files and volumes cloud makes sense. Problems arise when you need to restore multiple TB's of data as bandwidth kills download speeds. LTO tape with its high capacity, and portability can certainly speed up the data recovery process in the event of a disaster.
When you use LTO tape media and hardware, you get the added assurance of more than 30 years of storage experience and service behind the entire solution. LTO continues to be committed to giving the best LTO tape products for your applications by running extra processes and quality tests on its LTO Ultrium data media.
LTO tapes can be used for long-term archival storage and backup. In contrast, HDDs are treated like a temporary repository that's smaller in size and does not need to be backed up as often. The tape workflow is different than HDD - tapes don't have ports, they have to be inserted into the drive that keeps spinning on one spool inside the drive. With the increasing rate of data being produced and stored, backup can be a significant investment for your organisation. LTO tape technology offers the storage capacity required to provide backups that are fast and convenient. It also provides a means for restoring valuable information quickly when needed without the problems associated with tape duplication or decommissioning old drives. LTO supports LTFS, this is ideal to store large volumes of data that needs to be kept for 20+ years. Using LTO for the long term archiving, consider using LTO WORM tapes. These are Write Once Read Many and cannot be overwritten as the WORM tapes use copy protection mechanisms.
We have today LTO-10 tape with a capacity of 30TB native, 75TB compressed. Proving LTO tape provides the lowest cost per TB against all other storage technologies.
From the launch of the LTO 10 tape drive, each new cartridge must undergo a one-time initialisation operation to be optimised before being utilised for data writing. LTO 10 tapes no longer have to be formatted saving value time when bulk loading media. Next-generation LTO 10 has more tracks because of the higher density, which necessitates more accuracy for data placement.
LTO drives, tape autoloaders, and tape libraries are compatible. LTO tape media offers the lowest cost per gigabyte and the highest durability for long-term data storage. Over 25,000PB (25 Exabytes) of data is saved on it globally.
If you want to learn about how LTO LTFS can help as a data interchange solution without the aid of backup software, read our article LTO LTFS (Linear Tape File System) great for data interchange for a complete breakdown what Linear Tape File System provides.
Archive moves your data off the primary production disk and onto cheaper secondary or tertiary storage. This enables your organisation to exploit the full power of its large datasets stored in numerous storage devices and locations. An archive is a one-of-a-kind, unique instance of less frequently accessed information that has been moved off the primary production disk to lower-cost secondary or tertiary storage. The information is kept in a single location and is frequently a permanent record or data set that is kept there without being changed or deleted for a very long time, possibly years. When applications and users storing information in a file system request an archive, it can be automatically retrieved. Intelligent software continuously tracks, manages, and moves data up and down the storage tiers using rich metadata, indexes, tags, directories, and global namespaces to unlock archives and deliver high-performance search and retrieval across the storage spectrum.
Ready to revolutionise your near-line or active archive? LTO tape has the lowest energy overhead of any storage solution, with the ability to handle one million passes and 20,000 write cycles per tape. It's also able to store more than 1 petabyte in a cartridge, delivering maximum capacity with high reliability.
LTO Ultrium tape was initially invented by HP, IBM & Seagate in order to compete with Quantum DLT tape. Seagate sold it's LTO share holding to Quantum and in turn they stopped building DLT.
LTO is an Open Tape Format meaning that there are no single source supply of media. LTO tape technology is continually being developed by IBM, HP & Quantum and has a road-map that goes beyond LTO-14.
Here is an article we have written titled "Data Backup Full Overview". It covers many of the reasons why businesses should regularly backup data in order to protect the vase amounts of information that is created daily. Topics include Backup methods, RTO/RPO, optimisation techniques and much more.
In addition to this we can now provide SaaS for cloud backup of the following cloud services.
In addition to the above we can also backup Azure DevOps, Zendesk, Power Platform, Dynamics 365. If you want a demonstration or to know more, please contact us using the details below.
Tape has been the lowest cost media for decades as a cost per terabyte model. Use LTO tape as an air-gapped solution makes it the perfect on-premise solution as a secondary backup solution and perfect as a line of defence against ransomware. Tape also has incredibly green credentials compared to every other type of storage media and if you have a carbon credit target to hit, tape is the ideal solution for storing petabytes of data.
Talk to Fortuna Data today about your need for an LTO tape solution. Consider using LTO as the Green Storage option that will save money with reduced running costs.
If you would like us to quote for the new LTO-10 tape products then please call us on +44 (01256) 331614 or complete our form and we will respond.
