Tape Vault Storage is so Yesterday!
If you are looking to store your physical tapes (LTOs, etc.) in offsite storage – DON’T!
Tape Ark offers a free tape virtualization service that migrates your tapes to an air gapped, immutable, and cyber protected version in the cloud. Accessible from anywhere in the world, by all major backup vendors including Commvault, NetBackup, TSM, and Arcserve. (Full list here – Tape Formats and Data Formats)
For the same price as physical tape vault storage, you can store your tapes in the cloud, access them at any time (no courier vans), and apply retention periods to automatically reduce your data holding for compliance reasons.
The virtual offer also allows you to break free from your current backup platform and make new arrangements to backup directly to the cloud, without worrying about legacy hardware and legacy system management.
There are several options:
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