No other media provides the long-term, robust and economic data protection of a backup to tape. And, no one provides as many features and tools as standard with its tape drives, tape autoloaders and tape libraries as HP provides its customers. For smaller and medium sized organizations, HP offers a range of standards-based DAT and LTO format tape drives and tape autoloaders. These tape products ship with everything one needs to execute a backup to protect the data and systems. This includes the tape drive or tape autoloader, the cables, tape media, a cleaning cartridge, documentation and now HP StorageWorks Data Protector Express Single Server Edition backup and recovery software and the Data Protector Express Bare Metal Disaster Recovery (BMDR) option.

Oracle Secure Backup 10.1 changes the tape backup landscape providing centralized tape backup management for the Oracle Database and file systems in mixed, diverse environments reducing the cost and complexity of tape backup and restoration. Ideal for Oracle customers, Oracle Secure Backup provides data protection for heterogeneous UNIX, Linux, Windows and Network Attached Storage (NAS) environments. With a highly scalable client / server architecture, Oracle Secure Backup delivers local and remote capabilities meeting basic or more advanced backup and restoration requirements for the entire Oracle environment.

The Utah Department of Workforce Services had a tape backup system that was causing the department a variety of problems. The department performed backups over the weekend, but because backups to tape are slow, backups often ran over into Monday morning, using vital bandwidth and affecting employee productivity. Additionally, it took a day and a half or longer to restore servers and data after crashes, leaving employees without access to data for several days. To solve the problem, the department turned to the HP StorageWorks Virtual Library System (VLS). The VLS streams data to and from virtual tape drives, speeding the time of backups, restores, and system recoveries.

SA Eagle, like all insurance companies, is dependent on its data and customer records. The company must be able to back up and restore all its data for its daily functioning, as well as to help with insurance investigations, and to meet disaster recovery regulatory requirements. But SA Eagle was having issues reliably backing up its data. It was using several different systems for overnight backups, and those backups did not always complete by morning, sometimes leaving the company without backups. To solve the problem, it installed an HP StorageWorks 6000 Virtual Library System, which backs up to virtual tape drives, and accelerates backup performance in complex SAN environments while improving overall reliability.