VIRTUAL TAPE

VTL – Virtual Tape Library

Cost-effective solution that uses disk to enhance the reliability, speed, and availability of backups. Provides comprehensive data protection for both SAN and DAS environments, facilitating backups to virtual tape in the traditional tape backup model while also providing the ability to perform continuous disk-based backups.

With today’s dwindling IT budgets, administrators and other IT professionals are aggressively searching for ways to maximize investments in their existing storage infrastructure. This fact, coupled with shrinking backup windows, and escalating data growth, and the growing need for a cost effective, reliable, business continuity solution are pushing the limits of internal resources.

There is a solution: A VirtualTape Library (VTL) solution consolidates the management of backup resources while enhancing the reliability of backup operations and accelerating the speed of recovery. VTLs leverage industry standard high speed disk to provision virtual tape drives and libraries to backup servers attached to an iSCSI/IP or Fibre Channel (FC) storage area network (SAN), without the need to change existing backup software configurations and therefore preserving the investment in backup policy and IT staff’s operating knowledge.

Why a VTL ? Real business benefits...
  • Reliability: Ensures backup/restore success by eliminating media/ mechanical errors and manual intervention.

  • Availability: Remote offsite replication of virtual tapes provides disaster protection.

  • Consolidation: Centralizes management and consolidates backup resources.

  • Speed: Rapid data recovery. Support for multiple concurrent sessions. Disk-to-disk is faster than traditional tape backup.

  • Archiving: Data export to tape for archiving purposes.

  • Fast Deployment: Integrates seamlessly with existing backup software or policy. Easy to deploy — comparable to adding a new tape drive or library to your environment.

VTL Maximizes Backup Performance and Reliability
A VTL increases the speed and reliability of existing third party backup applications by using disks to emulate industry standard tape libraries.

A VTL leverages the Fibre Channel (FC) or IP protocol to transfer data to and restore data from disk-based virtual tape at ultra high speeds. And, a VTL maximizes reliability, and improves backup and restore success rate, by eliminating robotic mechanical failures and physical tape media errors.

Reliability is a critical IT concern, and with a VTL solution, users can perform storage controller-aware I/O load balancing, and leverage the transparent failover and fail-back capabilities of a vast array of intelligent storage systems. Users also have the ability to configure two VTL appliances as an active-active cluster to maximize service availability.

A VTL Reduces Material and Administrative Costs of Backup and Restore
Adding to a VTL’s inherent ability to aggregate and provision backup resources, as well as virtual tape drives/libraries over FC or IP SAN, this unique solution offers a new level of centralized management via the IP-based delta replication option, which replicates a virtual tape cartridge over IP in a peer-to-peer or many-to-one configuration, based on policy. A VTL significantly reduces the administrative burden placed on IT managers and staff by empowering users to initiate full disk or file recovery through rollback or mounted snapshots. A VTL also eliminates the need to rely on a library sharing option to coordinate access to a FC tape drive/library.

FalconStor VTL Delivers Seamless Integration
FalconStor’s ongoing interoperability testing with leading hardware and software solutions ensures seamless integration of VTL into an existing IT environment, while optimizing the overall performance and functionality of VTL and other technologies used by FalconStor customers today.

If you wish to have a demo or want to visit a customer reference, ask for a sales rep on + 323731411 or send an email to info@comparex.be

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