subject: Hps Dat-320 Tape Storage System And Its Enterprise-class Performance [print this page] In this modern age of information technology, competition is so fierce that any organization lagging even a step behind its competitors immediately feels the brunt of its ignorance in the form of negative impacts. With this in mind, all the organizations must aim for the most effective and efficient means of operations. When efficiency, effectiveness and operations appear in a single line there is only one word that comes to mind, computers.
The machine has revolutionized day to day operations of every industry, be it a labor intensive industry like sugar manufacturing or a capital intensive industry like banking, the presence of computers is most vital and highlighted. There is, however, one drawback of such extensive computer use; computers primarily produce virtual data which is rather intangible in nature.
This exposes critical data to various risks like loss due to operating system corruption, hard drive damage or cyber terrorism. Although this drawback is not enough to setback all the positive implications of computer use, they can cause some serious damage to the successful functioning of an organization under some circumstances.
So organizations normally look to hedge themselves from this risk exposure by turning to the backup solutions extensively available in the market. This technology allows organizations to store business critical data safely away from daily operations in dependable and durable tapes thus protecting them from risk of loss by unprecedented events. The text that follows mainly highlights the features of one such backup tape media named DAT-320 tape by HP.
HP DAT-320 tape is the latest generation under the long chain of DDS backup systems engineered for improved data security. The DDS/DAT format is one of the most successful format of backup media that have ever entered the market and an installed base of almost 19 million drives and 6 million users alone partially forecast the success story this tape media technology Moving on to quantitative facts that highlight the effectiveness of HP DAT-320 tape solution, the tape media cartridge offers a transfer speed of almost 12 MB/sec or up to 80 GB/hour.
Additionally the tape storage system offers an astounding storage capacity of almost 320 GB (compressed) and 160 GB (native). This former coupled with latter allows the clientele of HP DAT-320 tape system to store large amounts of data in every tape within a reasonable time frame. Moreover, high storage capacity attainable at a very low cost makes the HP DAT-320 tape format nothing below ideal for both small and medium scale businesses.
HP DAT-320 tape also features a long tape length which allows for lower number of tape swaps. This leads to other positive factors like less downtime, smaller footprint for backup and archiving, and less operator invention. The DAT-320 tape format promises to deliver a trustworthy, low-cost, convenient and an easy to use backup solution for both small and medium sized companies. So they can fulfill their storage demands and compliance criteria needs at the best price. It is the intelligent solution to many challenges faced the data rich companies.
