Dell PowerVault LTO Tape Drives
Taking advantage of Linear Tape Open (LTO) technology’s high performance and capacity, Dell PowerVault LTO3-060, LTO-3, LTO4-120 and LTO5-140 tape drives deliver reliable, cost-effective backup support for PowerEdge™ servers and PowerVault NAS servers.
High-performance, reliable, cost-effective data protection
Businesses and public organizations create mountains of data each day — information that is compiled, analyzed, moved, shared, stored, and which may have to be archived to comply with organizational, industry, and government regulations. As your organization increasingly relies on data-rich applications to generate revenue and achieve operational efficiency, protecting your data is vital; in fact, it may be the single most important thing you can do to ensure the ongoing success of your business. Tape backup has traditionally been one of the most cost-effective ways of keeping data safe and available
LTO tape technology: The value of standards
Linear Tape Open™, or LTO, technology was developed by an industry consortium to provide the reliability, scalability, and performance that today’s IT environments demand of tape-storage solutions. A single LTO tape can now house up to 1.5TB of data, and transfer data at up to 140MB/sec, making LTO ideal for the high capacity and streaming backup requirements of today’s enterprises. The LTO standard features help protect your technology investment with a clear growth path, from the original LTO-1, to the new LTO-5, and with a roadmap to future development of LTO-6. LTO tape’s open standard enables tape and drive compatibility among vendors, and has spawned competition that leads to quality products, innovation, and widespread availability at the best prices. Openness means the customer wins.
The value of security
LTO-3, LTO-4 and LTO5 also offer the user added data protection and security features. For customers with data-compliance requirements, LTO-3, LTO-4 and LTO5 offer write-once-read-many (WORM) technology. Data that is written to an LTO WORM cartridge in WORM format cannot be re-written or altered. Organizations that choose LTO-3, LTO-4 or LTO5 tape for backups will also benefit from being able to use their cost-effective tape solution to meet government and industry requirements for unalterable archives of data. The Dell PowerVault LTO-4-120 and LTO-5-140 tape drives utilize a secret 256-bit key for data encryption, which is performed in the tape device after host data is received and compressed, at full line speed — resulting in no impact on throughput performance and no host-processor MIPS overhead. Device level encryption removes the need for costly and complex encryption software.
Dell services
Dell Global Services provides end-to-end service and support solutions to help you take advantage of your new PowerVault LTO Tape Drive. You can count on award-winning support services to rapidly respond to your needs, and help you reduce the risk and complexity in your IT environment.
