XenData: LTO Tape Cloud Migration Service
Supporting formats include LTFS, Cache-A TAR, XenData TAR and Front Porch DIVA proprietary formats.
XenData Ltd. launches a service to migrate files archived on LTO tape cartridges to cloud storage.
LTO tape cartridges have a 30 years life and have proven to be a cost-effective way to archive data for the long term. But after several years, there is a need to migrate
the LTO cartridge contents to current technology media to avoid the need to maintain old generations of tape drives and systems.
The company's archive storage systems have built-in migration capabilities that make it for users to migrate their files from old generations of LTO to either the latest LTO
formats or to the cloud. However, that is not the case for many other LTO archive systems which leave users unable to easily migrate.
The company is offering a service that uses its migration technologies to transfer content from LTO to the cloud. Supported data formats include LTFS, Cache-A TAR, XenData
TAR and Front Porch DIVA proprietary formats. Contents may be categorized and re-organized before being migrated to AWS, Microsoft Azure or Wasabi public clouds. Alternatively, contents may be migrated to the latest LTO formats: either 6TB LTO-7 or 12TB LTO-8 cartridges.
Dr. Phil Storey, CEO, XenData, commented: "When you are keeping archived files for a decade or more, migration is a fact of life. Our new service takes the pain out of that
process, allowing files to be indexed, analyzed and shared."