Storage

With an installed base of more than 19 million drives and 6 million users, DDS/DAT is easily the world’s most popular tape storage format. The latest generation of this simple and successful format is delivered by the HPE DAT 320 tape storage solution, providing a 12 MB/sec transfer rate and up to 320 GB capacity on a single cartridge.

New manufacturing and recording technologies have created a tough, lightweight, high capacity, high performance media that more than measures up to the uncompromising storage demands of today’s dynamic, risk-aware businesses. DDS/DAT provides a reliable, low-cost, easy-to-use backup solution for small to medium-sized businesses to meet increasing storage demands and compliance criteria. A Storage Media Kit is also available, providing a complete tape media solution in one easy to buy product.

HPE DLT/SDLT Data Cartridges offer high capacity and low cost per GB for customers with existing investments in DLT backup technology. HPE SDLT II cartridges support DLTSage for improved media and drive diagnostics, enabling IT managers and network staff to better manage, predict and proactively prevent backup problems. DLTIce allows cartridges to be formatted as WORM tapes for compliance with regulations on data retention and archiving. To increase capacity, SDLT II transfers optical servo guide information to the other surface of the media, increasing the number of recording tracks on the data-bearing media surface. HP’s DLT/SDLT media is exhaustively qualified for use with HPE and non-HPE DLT/SDLT drives. A continuous testing program in HP’s media laboratory guarantees the high levels of quality uniquely specified by HPE.

Struggling to find cost effective flash storage for your primary, secondary, and backup/DR workloads? The HPE Nimble Storage Adaptive Flash Arrays are like having two flash arrays in one. The array is truly adaptive – designed for both primary and secondary flash workloads. It is a hybrid flash array for mixed, primary workloads where cost-efficient flash performance is important. It can also serve as a secondary flash array for backup and disaster recover (DR) while allowing you to put your backup data to work. The flash-enhanced architecture is combined with HPE InfoSight predictive analytics for fast, reliable access to data and 99.9999% guaranteed availability¹. Radically simple to deploy and use, the arrays are cloud-ready – providing data mobility to the cloud through HPE Cloud Volumes. Your storage investment made today will support you well into the future, thanks to our technology and business-model innovations.

Is the global trend of exponential data growth affecting your business? The highly scalable HPE StoreEver MSL3040 Tape Library provides small to mid-sized organizations with flexibility for long-term data protection and retention of data storage assets. With its modular design and ability to upgrade and reuse HPE StoreEver MSL LTO upgrade drive kits, you can cost-effectively store up to 12.6PB of date.¹  The HPE StoreEver MSL3040 Tape Library offers exceptional enterprise features and functionality as standard providing advanced security features and reliability. It delivers a tape storage solution that addresses long-term data management challenges, while also providing an air-gapped, last line of defense solution against the threat of ransomware.

HPE StoreEver MSL Entry-level Tape Automation products help SMB customers to meet long-term data retention requirements, as well as provide air-gapped data protection from the growing threat of ransomware. The HPE MSL 1/8 autoloader and HPE StoreEver MSL2024 tape library offer broad capacity options including LTO-9, LTO-8, LTO-7, or LTO-6 Ultrium drives. HPE CVTL makes the MSL 1/8 Autoloader and the MSL2024 tape library easy to manage from any location, mitigating the need for remote office IT staff. Simply manage tape media in and out of the library with the standard bar code reader, configurable mail slots, and removable magazines. If a tape were lost or stolen, protect important business data from unauthorized access with data encryption. Quickly increase capacity and/or performance with tool-free drive upgrades in the MSL 1/8 Autoloader or MSL2024 tape library, or move tape drive kits to the MSL3040 or MSL6480 for library scalability and additional enterprise class features.

Do you need a fast disk-based backup and recovery solution that can be installed in a single server or branch office? The HPE RDX Removable Disk Backup System is a reliable disk-based backup and recovery solution with unmatched portability, fast recovery and easy integration into a single server or branch office environment. It is rugged, removable, easy-to-use, and cost-effective for small offices or home offices with little or no IT resources. The HPE RDX Removable Disk Backup System is designed for harsh work environments where businesses need to protect, manage, transport or capture large amounts of data in less than ideal locations.

The HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit provides a high-density, rack-mountable tape drive and Removable Disk Backup System solution for both direct-attach USB or SAS backup and archiving applications, or a combination of both LTO drives and RDX docks in the same 1U rack-mount kit. Available in a generic format supporting both SAS and USB interfaces, the 1U HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit accommodates up to two half-height internal tape drives with a maximum capacity of 60 TB (compressed) using two HPE LTO-8 Ultrium 30750 drives. The 1U enclosure also supports up to two internal HPE RDX docks with a maximum capacity of 8 TB per backup session when using two HPE RDX 4 TB USB removable hard disk drives.

Is data growth resulting in increased backup times, missed SLAs and more management resources? Are you concerned about the threat from ransomware?

HPE StoreOnce Systems with HPE StoreOnce Catalyst provide a single, high-performance backup architecture that spans the entire enterprise.
Reduce the amount of backup data you need to store by 95%¹ and choose between powerful dedicated appliances for data centers, and flexible virtual appliances for smaller deployments.
Industry-leading backup and restore speeds mean that you can meet shrinking backup windows and recovery service level agreements. HPE StoreOnce Catalyst prevents exposure of backup copies to ransomware. With HPE StoreOnce you can dedupe anywhere and control the movement of data across the enterprise using your backup application. Using HPE Cloud Bank Storage to cloud-enable your current backup and business applications, HPE StoreOnce Systems provide even more flexibility to reduce your cost, risk, and complexity.

HPE StoreEver LTO Ultrium Tape Drives represent nine generations of linear tape open (LTO) technology capable of storing up to 45TB¹ per cartridge, with hardware data encryption, HPE StoreOpen with linear tape file system (LTFS) for ease of use at an unprecedented performance. Data hardware encryption using AES 256-bit provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. LTFS is an open format for storing data on tape that makes LTO generation 5 and later tapes self-describing and file-based. Capable of data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s native, the data rate matching further helps optimize performance by matching host system speed to keep drives streaming, thus enabling a faster tape performance.

Are your ever expanding data storage, protection and retention needs getting out of hand? Are you concerned about how secure your data will be in the event of a ransomware attack? The HPE StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library is the gold standard for mid-range tape automation, delivering best-in-class scalability, density, and performance to meet your short-term backup and disaster recovery data protection needs, as well as long-term archival requirements. Keep pace with data growth by seamlessly scaling up to seven modules—without disrupting daily data protection. Reduce TCO by reusing HPE StoreEver MSL tape drives while adding more capacity and performance as you need it. Competitively priced, the HPE StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library offers an outstanding return on your storage investment.