Advantages of Virtual Tape Library(VTL)


Nowadays organisations come across several transactions and activities which is impossible to recognise. Additionally, due to the COVID-19 pandemic situation, data volumes continue to grow exponentially. Storing and managing these large amounts of structured and unstructured data is the pain point for many organisations. Therefore, there is a need to have a place where these data can be stored and can be used for future retrieval. Also, a good storage system ensures clean and hassle-free environment.

Organisations depend on many storage media like flash, cloud, and disk. A good storage system provides greater flexibility to users. Management of these storage helps in keeping check on the number of users accessing it. Furthermore, data analysis and forecasting become easy if they are managed properly.

Tape backup is the most consistent and cheapest way to store data. Once the tape system is set up, it is easy to run and expand. Therefore, it is chosen in larger organisations to gain the disk-based advantages. Further, it can also integrate VTLs into disk-based offsite replication and disaster recovery systems. Newer VTLs are providing NAS support to interconnect with as many network protocols as possible.

Tyrone Verta is a unified architecture that provides FC, 1G, 10G,25G, 40G, 100G, IB and IP connectivity for NAS, SAN and VTL operations. It consolidates file, block, and object data in a single storage solution where you can achieve key business benefits in cost-effective ways while eliminating the need for separate storage boxes.

Verta Offer
  • Support for VTL.
  • Highly scalable with storage capacity upto 5 PB.
  • All Verta solutions offer a high level of redundancy and data protection.
  • Flexibility of connecting to any type of network.
  • Multi-protocol storage facility.
  • Tape management, Tape replacement Deduplication and data compression.
  • Interactive web-based management is very user friendly.

Tape technology has many benefits over the disk and flashes technology. The biggest advantage of VTL is its seamless integration into an existing tape backup infrastructure.

Some of the benefits of VTL system are:
  • VTL solution is easy to integrate into the backup environment.
  • Supports data deduplication and compression.
  • Stores a large amount of backup data at a very low storage cost.
  • Supports automatic disaster recovery management.
  • Multiple VTL instances improve overall backup throughput.