Virtual Tape Library

Solution Description

In today’s 24/7 business world, businesses cannot afford downtime. With the average cost of downtime nearing US$1 million per hour or more, companies need backup and recovery solutions that are both resilient and fast, while remaining flexible enough to cater to existing and future compliance and regulatory needs.

Virtual Tape Library solutions by Hitachi Data Systems, comprising high-performance, high-availability Hitachi storage systems and industry leading software from Diligent™ Technologies, plus planning and implementation services, offer the right answer. Each enterprise-class Virtual Tape Library solution delivers all the benefits of disk-to-disk backup and recovery, including enhanced speed, reliability and availability.

Virtual Tape Library solutions are also designed to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve investment protection by emulating tape libraries. This goes beyond just backup and recovery by eliminating the need to change established backup policies or procedures and enhancing ability to effectively manage data growth.

Value Proposition and Benefits

Reduce and Simplify Management Workload

• Eliminates human error by removing the need for tape management
• Enhances recovery success through the elimination of tapes

Enhance Reliability and Performance

• Improves reliability problems associated to loss or misplacement of tapes by removing them from the process
• Improves responsiveness to unforeseen events with high-speed disk-based backup and recovery

Dramatically Lower TCO

• Via Diligent ProtecTIER™ offers innovative single-instance-store capabilities at affordable prices
• Reduces maintenance and integration costs with the entire Virtual Tape Library solution available from just one storage vendor, with the highest level of integration

Solution Diagram

Solution Offers

• VTF™ Mainframe — a Virtual Tape Library Solution for mainframe systems
• VTF Open — a Virtual Tape Library Solution for open systems
• ProtecTIER™ VT — a Virtual Tape Library Solution for open systems, featuring HyperFactor™ advanced data de-duplication technology for capacity optimization

Solution Implementation Services

• Assessment
• Implementation Plan and Design
• Implementation
• Solution Testing and Knowledge Transfer