NetApp Virtual Tape Library (VTL)
Backing up and restoring business-critical data from tape is not the only task an IT department needs to perform every day but it's fast becoming a number one pain point. Are you feeling stressed-out by the fact that your business data is growing but the time you have for backup is shrinking? Frustrated with increasing requests for data retrieval and issues with corrupted data upon restore?
NetApp NearStore® VTL – a cost-effective, reliable, disk-to-disk backup solution – brings your business dramatically faster backup and recovery of data, plus simplified backup management.
NearStore VTL provides a solution to address all of your backup needs by bringing the benefits of disk-based backup to your existing tape environments. It delivers increased performance, capacity, ease-of-use, reduced cost of ownership, security and interoperability with your existing tape libraries without disrupting existing operational processes or introducing additional management burdens.
Developed specifically to address the requirements of backup administrators, NearStore VTL brings practical benefits too – there will be no need to change any of your current storage infrastructure or retrain your staff, it simply behaves in exactly the same way as your existing tape solution.
Key Benefits
- Protects data stored on any open systems primary storage environment
- Seamless integration with existing tape environments
- Dramatically faster and more reliable backup and restore
- Simplifies backup and recovery management
- Reduces disk-to-disk backup costs by up to 67%*
*NetApp Internal Test Results
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