The new Gen3 class 8-channel optical drive reads and writes both sides of the double-sided media to enable data transfer of 375 MB/s read and 187.5 MB/s write – that’s 1.5 times higher when compared with Gen2.
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The estimated lifespan is over 100 years under ISO testing. Each cartridge comprises 11 discs of ‘Archival Disc’, co-developed with Panasonic, and provides 500GB of storage per disc for a total capacity of 5.5TB – that’s more than sixty percent increase over Gen2.
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The PoINT Storage Manager – Enterprise Edition can also realize a legally compliant archiving system in line with compliance requirements.Īnd finally – do you know how much data on your storage system is inactive? The PoINT File System Analyzer provides you with a free software tool to shed some light on your primary storage.Sony's ODA Generation 3, the latest version of high capacity archive drive inclusive of USB desktop drive units, Fibre-channel library drive units and media cartridges developed for long-term enterprise data storage. With the help of the PoINT Storage Manager – Enterprise Edition, cost-intensive expansions to storage can be avoided and businesses can save up to 60% of their storage costs.
Data can also be archived in line with compliance requirements. This reduces cost-intensive primary storage of inactive data by moving it to more cost-effective secondary storage. Thanks to storage tiering, inactive data (up to 80% of the total data pool) can be transferred to another storage level using predefined rules. The flexible “write once, read many” (WORM) functions of this tier enable both long term data management based on retention policies or provide air gap protection against cyber security ransomware attacks. It offers properties which are required for compliance with relevant laws and regulations. The “capacity tier” can therefore be seen as an expansion of the “performance tier”.īy contrast, the “archive tier” is designed for archiving. While the “performance tier” consists of a storage system optimized for maximum performance, the “capacity tier” is distinguished by its high capacity. Access to data stored in one or more tiers is transparent and through the “performance tier”. The three tiers have specific cost and performance properties, the “performance tier”, the “capacity tier” and the “archive tier”. Point Storage Manager lets you devise policies to manage your data storage and optimise cost and performance during your data life cycle.
In this use case Point Intelligent storage management software works with NetApp Object Storage, LTO Tape and Sony Optical Disc Archive and Public Cloud solutions for cost-efficient data management and compliant file archival. Sony ODA are random access unlike LTO Tape and allow rapid data, file, application, and operating system recovery. Sony Optical Disc Archive (ODA) media are Write Once Read Many (WORM) media whilst LTO provide software WORM functionality. The National Cyber Security Centre recommend keeping a backup copy offsite to protect against virus or ransomware attacks. NetBackup backup and recovery software, enables you to keep your data safe on a range of media on premise or in the cloud including Sony Optical Disc Archive, LTO Tape, SATA disk or Public Cloud storage including AWS S3, Microsoft® Azure, Google Cloud Platform Storage, Oracle Cloud Platform, Oracle Database Server, IBM Bluemix, Hitachi, and SwiftStack.
Your backups could help you resume business operations and restore data from backups if: Ideally you should backup your data in a separate medium, separate from the primary storage and not accessible by staff to protect from ransomware, malware or virus attacks. That’s why a reliable data backup is vital. No one knows when an emergency can strike, or when an accident can lead to business problems. But they are not aware of the looming danger. Unfortunately, more than 50% of both medium and small businesses do not have the right back up. Disasters can strike and affect your computers leading to loss of data. Every business has vital information that it cannot afford to lose.