Here is the thing. You have a regulatory requirements to keep your LTO archives for let's say, 15 years. Imagine handling your LTOs, for let's say 30-50 years. LTO has 30 year life expectancy but what about tape drives. But imagine that you have to maintain old equipment just in case you have to restore from old backups. Tape sounds like a workable solution until you realize that the actual tape isn't the problem, but the hardware to restore the tape. Today we'll have a look at StarWind VTL Appliance.
Also, you have to keep the tape drives in good working order, store them properly, and also, the interface to a server and the server has to be able to support the interface. There has to be a plan for what to do when the hardware can't be supported any more and what to do with that data. LTO and hardware hell….
Another thing is Ransomware. You certainly do not want to have your archives being encrypted by some ransomware, right? Today's ransomware attacks are not the ones we had 10 years ago! Having your data in different locations and on different media types is a must. StarWind VTL is ransomware-resilient archival storage for your business-critical data that complements your on-premises environment with public and object storage tiers. Step away from costly tape-centric backup infrastructures in favor of “air-gapped” virtual tapes to ensure that your data archival and retention requirements are always met.
StarWind VTL Appliance meets regulatory requirements while keeping data flexibly tiered for different purposes, significantly decreasing backup costs while keeping performance always at an all-time high.
LTO Conversion Problems?
StarWind can help with the conversion from LTOs too. If you're looking to migrate existing digital assets and simplify data management, StarWind is offering to automatically virtualize any existing LTO Archives while preserving the original archive access method, structure, and barcodes.
If you’re looking to migrate your existing digital assets from LTO to disk or cloud storage, StarWind have a solution for that. They can automatically migrate all the existing LTO archives to our VTL appliance as well as any cloud or object storage, all while preserving the existing barcodes and archive structures. Once data is migrated, your applications will access it the same way as before.
- StarWind VTL Appliance converts physical tapes to virtual tapes to speed up backup process and avoid backup-production time overlap while offering multi-cloud and object storage tiering.
- Keeps important data at hand in the hot cloud of your choice.
- Automatically destages rarely accessed data to the most inexpensive cold storage.
- Provides a powerful physical storage base mixed with multi-cloud.
StarWind VTL Appliance, it is Hardware and Software. A preconfigured bundle.
Many backup software integrations
If you're using one of the supported backup software, you just improve your existing backup infrastructure with better and more performant solution. They have support for about 15 different backup vendors. From Acronis to Quest… (alphabet order) … and of course including Veeam…
The Hardware – StarWind VTL Appliance
And also Fibre Channel Support
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Mainframe systems and legacy infrastructures require modernized backup storage. StarWind makes mainframe backups easy by providing customers who have an IBM mainframe investment with an FC attached Virtual Tape Library. This simplifies mainframe data protection and shrinks archival costs by moving away from tape towards either organization's FC storage or cloud storage without having to rebuild the existing infrastructure from scratch.
Check out the StarWind VTL datasheet page here. You'll find all the details about the solution, with specs, use cases and features.
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