By Rob Millar
Businesses have to store a number of vulnerable data such as the details of their clients, financial accounts and other documentations. Storing large amounts of data in a written form is very risky as written data can get misplaced, stolen or corrupted. Moreover, written data consume a large space so the cost of using this sort of storage system has many externalities attached to it
. In recent times, work and responsibility of business data administrators have increased with more data to manage, preserve and protect. It's a very complex job for the data administrator to find a data storage backup system which is not only highly reliable and secure but also cost effective.
IBM is one such company which has launched its successful Ultrium tapes which have helped businesses in overcoming all sorts of data storage problems. IBM's new Linear Tape open LTO-6 is intended to aid businesses in managing large amounts of data, providing durable storage and access to reliable data. This tape is suited for businesses such as medical, media, federal and entertainment. This advance IBM LTO-6 tape offers medium to large scale businesses an increased storage space and fast data transfer speed. In comparison to the previous LTO5 tape, LTO-6 tape provides double the storage capacity.
The previous tape had the total capacity of 1.5TB while the new tape has a total capacity of 6.25TB compressed data and 2.5TB raw data. The data transfer rate offered by IBM LTO-6 is much faster than the previous generation tape which offered the transfer rate of 140MB per second. With the new LTO drive, you can transfer 400MB of data per second. It was hard to find such a transfer speed and high capacity tape before. Saving data on different tapes can lead to misplacement sometimes, by installing ultrium6 as a data storage system, businesses can prevent data loss.
Businesses today can easily adapt to this new technology as data stored in previous tapes can be very conveniently converted to new generation. This is because; the new LTO-6 is compatible with the previous ultrium5. The new LTO-6 tape has proved itself as highly durable, reliable and cost effective data storage system. It is supported by the most reliable security features such as WORM (Write Once, Read Many) and Encryption. Where, WORM helps in overcoming human errors while Encryption helps in preserving data in codes so that to access data, you have to use authorized keys.
The over-reliance of businesses on computers has proved to be risky as data stored in computers can easily be lost, steal or misplace. In order to keep the information about the business in a safe and secure place, businesses need to opt for effective data storage system. IBM has been helping businesses in dealing with such issues from years by launching a series of technological advance tapes and drives. There new invention is the LTO-6 tape which is upgraded and has a number of advanced features including increased data storage capacity, fast data transfer speed and compatibility with previous drives.
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Very very interesting and informative post about IBM LTO-6 Tapes
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