Overview

Explosive data growth, 24x7 operations, and business-critical applications have made data backup and storage a central issue for large businesses. These large businesses represent financial institutions, media, retail, transportation, and shipping industry leaders. New solutions are required to meet these quickly increasing demands. Periodically these companies evaluate a variety of options including improvement in the backup/restore rates, data reliability, drive reliability, and tape capacity to meet business objectives.

In this white paper we compare the capability of the existing DLT 8000 and LTO-1 tape drives with the latest LTO-2 technology for a large business having hundreds of terabytes of business critical data. This paper will describe how LTO-2 tape drives can provide twice the performance and capacity of the current system.