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QUANTUM DLTtape HANDBOOK
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9.1
No matter what business you’re in, or what industry-specific appli-
cations you may use, you almost certainly need data backup and
archiving. These are fundamental applications in the data storage
world, and this is where the DLTtape system is used most. In fact,
nearly 90 percent of all DLTtape systems sold are used for backup
and archiving. The remaining 10 percent are used in applications
such as Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM), near on-line
storage, tape RAIT (Redundant Array of Independent Tape drives),
library management systems, data interchange, and tape-as-disk
applications.
The widespread use of DLTtape technology for backup and archiv-
ing applications is easy to understand: DLTtape systems offer the
highest capacity, throughput, and cost effective reliability of any
tape systems on the market. If you are managing a computer net-
work, data warehouse, or large Internet/Intranet application today,
no doubt you are experiencing tremendous growth in data storage
requirements. At the same time, your backup window may be
shrinking. In some 7x24 operations, there is no backup window –
backups must be accomplished during regular business hours.
Increasing data storage demands, coupled with shrinking backup
windows, have led users to embrace the advantages of DLTtape