LTO tape cartridges have become the most popular and relied-upon backup media in the data center. Unfortunately, most data center professionals identify defective LTO tapes when it’s too late, after they fail. These tape failures can be disruptive and expensive. IG2’s VeriTape service monitors your entire library of LTO tapes and can identify aging or damaged LTOs before they fail, not afterwards.
When saving critical data to LTO tapes, you need to have complete confidence that your data can be recovered without problems. IG2’s service enables you to identify and eliminate any tapes that do not meet your standards, before they wreak havoc on your data center.
All LTO tapes have an internal memory chip called Cartridge Memory (CM). This chip contains vital information about the tape and the tape drives used to write data to the tape. For each LTO that enters the vault, IG2’s VeriTape service extracts the CM chip information, analyzes it and generates a VeriScore, which is a single quality number that you can use to evaluate the health of the tape. You will receive scheduled email updates with the latest VeriScore for your entire library of LTO tapes.
If you back up your valuable data to LTO tapes, with IG2’s VeriTape service, you can rest assured that your tapes, and the data on them, will be available when you need them.
