Dell delivers data security

Date: 26 April 2007
(ICT World)
Dell says that it is helping customers to protect their business-critical data by delivering tape drives and media based on LTO-4 technology. The PowerVault LTO-4-120 drives are designed to enable companies across EMEA to achieve device-level encryption.

The PowerVault LTO-4-120 is a tape storage drive that guarantees to keep business-critical data protected from potential theft or loss, says Doug Downing, enterprise brand manager at Dell SA. Tape continues to play a crucial role in back-up and recovery plans.

The Dell PowerVault LTO-4-120 drives are said to deliver the latest generation of the popular Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Ultrium format. LTO technology aims to provide a higher level of scalability, automation and performance as well as allowing for a wide range of product features from multiple storage vendors.

Key features of the PowerVault LTO-4-120 are said to include:

* Greater security: PowerVault LTO-4-120 is said to enable device-level encryption, and to reduce the risk of unauthorised access to business-critical data. Given the portable nature of tape and that back-up tapes are often stored at off-site locations, the PowerVault LTO-4-120 aims to protect against both on-site and off-site data loss.

* More capacity/performance: The LTO-4-120 drives are designed to offer double the capacity 800GB native and a 50% performance increase over the previous generation LTO-3-80. Additionally, backup windows can be shrunk by up to one-third with the 120MBps throughput to increase back-up productivity, Dell says.

* Intergenerational operability: Standardised LTO technology aims to ensure that customers have forward and backward compatibility as well as vendor neutrality. The LTO-4-120 is designed to be backward read and write compatible with the previous generation and backward read compatible with media from the prior two generations.