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NEO Agility LTFS and Archive Appliance - What is LTFS
- Allows user to drag and drop files via OS graphical file
manager and directory tree to/from tape
- Tape Appears as a storage device
- Files can be managed directly on tape
- Makes accessing files easy and intuitive
- Just link using disk or USB
- Improves archive management
- Ideal for file-based data archive
- provides portability for open systems tape storage
- Open standard makes data on tape non-proprietary; provides for easy
interchange
- Doesn't require traditional storage apps for sharing and archiving
of data
- Doesn't require additional IT staff
- Repositions tape from being the last point of contact to one of the
1st points of contact
- Advantages
- Manages and more easily archives high quality files
while providing
the advantages of tape technology
- Reliable
- Low cost
- High capacity
- Low energy consumption
- Provides workflows previously only available on disk
- Became available on single tape drives/cartridges with LTO-5
- Can be configured to meet the needs of a variety of applications
managing large amounts of data
- Compliant
- Reduced complexity ensures compliance with a multitude of
different systems
- Proven superior reliability for long term archive
- Affordable
- How does it work?
- Partitions tapes into 2 partitions:
- Partition 1 hold the content's index & metadata
- Partition 2 holds the content
- Software & server is needed to manage the tapes as disk
- Stand alone drives
- Applications mostly fouled in eastern Europe, Middle East, Asia
- Basic/limited LTFS functionality is native to the tape drive
- Single tape cartridge appears as drive in directory (i.e. drive "D")
- Automation
- More complex environments
- Much higher storage capacity needs
- Performance concerns
- Plan for future growth
- Entire library contents can appear as a single or multiple disk
mounts in directory tree
- Provides more advanced data management capabilities
Some Target markets / industries for LTFS are Healthcare, Post Production and
Video Surveillance
LTFS and Healthcare
- Storage requirements driven by:
- Digitization of medical records & images
- Switch to mobile devices by healthcare professionals
- Today's storage problem will grow by 50x in the next 6 years
- Healthcare data storage volumes expected to soar
into the
Yottabytes (1 billion PB)
- Benefits of LTFS in healthcare:
- Provides physicians with the workflow needed
- Provides easy retrieval of data (for up to 100 years)
- Addresses regulatory compliance
- Eliminates the complexity of data storage and data
flow
- Fits in the tightened healthcare IT budgets &
provides superior TCO
- Accommodates future growth without a whole system
overhaul
LTFS and Post-Production
- Storage requirements driven by:
- Need reliable long term archives for video content
- Disks are expensive, in short supply and not
re-usable
- Need ease of use, cross platform compatibility,
portability, duplication for offsite data protection, lower cost
- Benefits of LTFS in Post-Production:
- Users easily determine the contents of a cartridge
- Allows video to be shared between locations,
regardless of platform
- Provides a cost-effect long-term archive solution
- 100 Video Disks can be stored on 1 LTO tape
- Reduces the amount of space needed
- Allows reuse of video disks
- Provides multiple copies of the data for offsite
protection
LTFS and Video Surveillance
- Storage requirements driven by:
- Large amounts of footage needs to be stored offline
- Data needs to be retrieved quickly
- Can't afford to clutter on-line disk with data
that needs to be stored
- Benefits of LTFS in Video Surveillance:
- Allows quick retrieval of files
- Allows footage to be shared across multiple locations
- Reduces the cost of storage
- Frees up disk space for online video process
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