Economical Data Storage with Quantum LTO-4 Ultrium Tape Solution

IT professional are now demanding high-speed backup media solutions to satisfy the stringent regulatory requirements and keep pace with the escalating storage needs. Backup, archive, preserve and protect your vital business with LTO ultrium tape technology at a lower cost. LTO format was co-founded by IBM, HP and Seagate (now Quantum).

Business data is your most precious corporate asset. Therefore it is important to select high-quality products from Quantum, the world’s leading tape brand. Quantum backup tape products are rigorously engineered to help you store and manage your data with greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness over a longer time period.

Quantum LTO-4 ultrium tape solution provides the flexibility, speed, capacity and security necessary to satisfy the needs of enterprise-class servers, SMBs, desktop workstations, modern IT environments, databases and branch offices. Quantum LTO-4 tape devices provides a common platform for scalability and higher recording efficiency. Quantum LTO-4 solution helps to trim the energy and operating costs.

Quantum LTO-4 tape drives are engineered to deliver 50% faster transfer speed than LTO3 tape drives. In compressed mode, the backup performance of Quantum LTO4 drives reaches up to an incredible speed of 576 GB/hour. Quantum LTO-4 tape devices are well equipped with advanced media technologies that help companies achieve robust security and superior reliability unattainable with other tape formats.

MR-L4MQN-01 is the part number of high-capacity Quantum LTO-4 ultrium cartridge. 1.6 TB compressed and 800GB native data can be stored on a single Quantum LTO4 cartridge. Massive media capacity of Quantum LTO-4 ultrium tape allows more enterprise data to be safely recorded on fewer tapes, which results in cost-effective archiving and less IT staff involvement. The customers have the luxury to use the previous generation LTO tapes with high-performance Quantum LTO-4 drives, which ensures higher return on your tape investment. LTO 3 tape media is fully read/write compatible, and LTO 2 tape cartridges are read compatible.

Good news is that Quantum has also launched its next generation LTO-5 backup tape devices. Part numbers of Quantum’s LTO cartridges are MR-L2MQN-01, MR-L3MQN-01, MR-L5MQN-01 and MR-L1MQN-01. With floor space in offices and data-centers at a premium, the small footprint of Quantum LTO-4 backup tape solution saves more space and provides greater cost advantage, which is ideal in offsite storage scenarios and long term archival.

Quantum has introduced a special “data rate matching” mechanism that helps the LTO-4 drives to deliver higher storage efficiency even on slower hosts. This advanced technology automatically adjusts the drive speed to that of the host system’s data transfer rate. LTO4 tape solution safeguards your data with its special data security features including WORM and drive-level data encryption mechanisms. Quantum LTO-4 tape technology features AES 256-bit encryption mechanism, which reliably encrypts the data without de-grading the overall storage efficiency.

With ultra 320 SCSI and 3GB/s SAS interfaces, the Quantum LTO-4 drives can be easily integrated in a wide spectrum of I.T environments. Quantum LTO4 tape solution further enhances your media choice with its desktop, internal and rack mount drive configurations. So the users can conveniently select the drive configuration that is perfect for their working environment. Product and software names mentioned throughout this article are trademarks and are sole property of their owners.

Rob Miller is the Marketing Manager of Tape4backup and markets Quantum LTO-4 ultrium tape and Quantum MR-L4MQN-01 tape. 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.

Rob Miller
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Email: rob@tape4backup.com