IBM LTO4 Ultrium 800 GB Data Cartridge and LTO Drive

The LTO is an Open backup tape media which isdeveloped the LTO 4 ultrium backup tape cartridge
considered as one of the most innovative and leadingwhich is a high quality, robust and rigid backup
tape format. The IBM media products have the newstorage medium that provides the best results to the
and innovative technologies that have the ability andenterprises. The LTO 4 drives also provide the
capacity to work under severe conditions.features of data encryption techniques, which help to
The IBM LTO4 is reliable, high speed and robustprotect the precious and valuable data. The data
backup tape cartridge of the fourth generation ofencryption technique gives an additional advantage to
LTO backup tape technology. The native storagethe users for data protection.
capacity of the IBM LTO 4 tape is 800GB while theThe IBM data tapes have been carefully developed
compression capacity is 2:1. Therefore, theand engineered to enhance the data integrity,
compressed storage capacity reaches to 1.6TB. Thecapacity, reliability and data transfer speed. The IBM
IBM LTO4 cartridges come in the form of writeLTO cartridges are facilitating and improving the
once, Write Once Read Many WORM and also inefficiency of the companies around the globe. The
rewritable as well.IBM backup tape cartridges have been tested many
The LTO 4 ultrium drives benefits its users, becausetimes with the LTO tape drives in order to ensure
it has the technology to record the encrypted datathat the tape cartridges give the best results, hold
on the WORM cartridge and rewritable tape cartridgedata for longer period of time and reduce the
as well. The IBM LTO drives are more reliable andchances of data loss. The IBM tapes improve the
efficient because when ever the drive is accessed,performance of LTO tape libraries and drives.
on every use the drive stores the read write mediaThe IBM cartridges have the technology and ability to
statistical analysis. The IBM backup cartridge offerswork in extreme and harsh conditions in automated
its users with more capacity per volume for dataas well as the stand alone working environments. The
storing. Therefore less capacity for library cartridge isIBM LTO cartridge has LTO CM (cartridge memory)
required for the IBM LTO tape. In this way thechip. During the media (unload/load) cycles, the CM
backup windows also reduces as well as the volume.chip helps to improve and speed up the process of
The IBM LTO 4 tape media facilitates its users totransfer of data with the IBM LTO drives. The color
overcome the issue of the increased volume of dataof the IBM LTO4 cartridge is green so that it can be
to be stored. The IBM is a high capacity and reliableeasily differentiated among the other generations of
storage medium. The IBM tape requires lesser humanLTO ultrium backup tape cartridges. The IBM LTO
intervention, space along with other equipment toWORM (Write Once Read Many) tapes have the
hold the backup tapes and daily operations. Because,new technology to store the data in the format of
the IBM backup tapes have increased capacity tonon rewritable and non erasable. In this way the data
hold the data.can be stored for longer period of time.
The IBM backup tape cartridges reduce theThe hardware encryption technology of LTO fourth
operational costs, because lesser number of IBM tapegeneration along with the WORM technology helps to
cartridges is able to hold large volumes of data dueenhance the data integrity. New and advanced
to their increased storage capacity. In this way timesecurity features have been introduced in order to
is also saved due to less human interference becausemake sure that the data stored in the IBM LTO tape
of the lesser number of tape cartridges. IBM hasis kept safe from deletion or alteration.