HP LTO-4 Linear Tape Open Technology

HP LTO media is highly cost effective and advantageous in all the LTO ultrium products manufactured by Hewlett-Packard as well as the non-HP products.  HP has special media laboratory whose purpose is to test the backup media products in order to verify its reliability and high quality. These testing programs ensure HP media products’ superior quality and durability. Hewlett-Packard uses twenty test chambers which are used around the clock. These HP test chambers are custom-built. 70,000 tests are conducted per year with almost 1.3 million test hours. The HP WORM LTO-4 and the RW (re-writable) LTO4 tape cartridges deliver up to 260 full backups and have long durable life of 30 years.

HP LTO4 tape format ensures that the organization can meet the rapidly increasing demands of strict regulations pertaining to data retention & archiving. HP LTO-4 tape drive supports the WORM functionality. Therefore alterations and changes to the data are not allowed by the WORM feature after they have been written on the LTO4 tape media which results in improved data protection. This powerful feature of HP LTO4 technology is very useful to satisfy the regulatory requirements such as Sarbanes-Oxley Act and SEC Rule 17a - 4(f). The HP WORM tape cartridge has different color which makes it easy to identify. Write protect tab of the HP LTO4 WORM tape functions the same as RW backup ultrium tape.

HP’s fourth generation tape libraries and drives have the capability which enables it to become part of extended data encryption reaching up to FIPS level-2 140-2. HP LTO4 drive incorporates the highest level of AES encryption capability which is the 256 bit AES encryption. It enables the HP tape drive to offer greater security. Implementation of HP has helped it to satisfy the tape encryption standard of IEEE1619.1. Now the data managers have more flexibility as they can select the bar-code solution that fits their allocated budget and business requirements from the vast range of non-custom labeled, custom labeled and bar-code label packs. The non-custom labels are for fast delivery & fixed sequences. Custom labels are for complete sequence choice & selection, and finally the bar-code labels are for house labeling self service.

1840 tape drive by HP has the ability to store 1600GB data on LTO4 cartridge and also offers unmatched data encryption feature that elevates the security level thus resulting in superior performance. AES encryption feature offered by HP LTO-4 tape format is very easy-to-enable and secures the highly sensitive information by prohibiting un-authorized use. HP ultrium tape drive precisely compresses the data thus leading to increased performance and reliable data encryption. The backup operations are carried out without any time delay and loss in performance. Advanced technologies employed in HP LTO-4 format maximize its capacity and data throughput. HP LTO4 drive is capable of transferring information at a brisk rate of 240MB/sec thus making it the most preferred choice of the IT managers and data administrators. HP LTO 4 increases the return on investment and elevates the overall efficiency.