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Dell Delivers LTO-4
Dell introdduces PowerVault LTO-4-120
April 19, 2007
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ROUND ROCK, Texas -- Dell (NASDAQ:DELL - News) today announced it is the first major storage provider to deliver the next generation of Linear Tape-Open drives and media - known as LTO-4 - to help protect and manage business-critical data. With device-level encryption, the Dell PowerVault(TM) LTO-4-120 enables greater levels of security, capacity and performance for tape-based storage.
Industry research shows that most companies rely heavily on tape for backup, archiving and compliance. A recent survey of storage customers, for example, indicated that 81 percent will either increase or maintain their level of investment in tape backup and restore. Additionally, the survey showed that more than 50 percent of companies use tape for compliance storage(1).
Based on the LTO-4 Ultrium format, key features of the Dell PowerVault LTO-4-120 drives include:
Greater Security: LTO-4 is the first version to enable device-level encryption. This is important given the portable nature of tape and that backup tapes are often stored at off-site locations. If lost or stolen, encryption would help prevent the data from being accessed.
More Capacity/Performance: The Dell PowerVault LTO-4-120 drives offer double the capacity - 800GB native - and a 50 percent performance increase over the previous generation. This allows customers to decrease backup windows by 33 percent and reduce the number of tape cartridges they are currently managing.
Intergenerational Operability: Standardized LTO technology ensures customers have forward and backward compatibility as well as vendor neutrality. The LTO-4-120 is backward read and write compatible with the previous generation and backward read compatible with media from the prior two generations.
Dell Inc.
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