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The Cape to Cape challenge In September 2014, the intrepid team of Rainer Zietlow, Marius Biela and Matthias Prillwitz attempted a new world record for driving: from Nordkapp, Norway, in the Arctic Circle, to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost point of Africa, in the shortest possible time. This followed two previous record-setting drives from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska along the ‘Pan Americana’, and a second epic journey from Melbourne to St. Petersburg.
Nordkapp Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media Berlin Istanbul Cairo Nairobi Johannesburg Cape Agulhas The route took them through 19 countries: Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media At the end of the trip, which was 21 days, 19 countries and 9,000 miles later, the HP LTO-6 cartridge still worked flawlessly when it came back for testing at HP’s media laboratory. No degradation of error rate, capacity or transfer speed was observed.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media Ensuring your restore is always available 400,000 GB of data storage required With the world’s archival needs doubling every year, tape provides the perfect blend of long term, secure and easily accessible storage. Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium is the most successful tape format and HP, with its broad portfolio of tape data cartridges and services, has been the leader in LTO branded cartridge shipments since 2002.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media Industry standards reveal much. HP demands much more. The Compliance Verification (CV) process for the awarding of LTO Ultrium logo status is primarily concerned with interchange, to ensure products from different vendors work across platforms. It is not a measure of quality – i.e. how reliably those products perform.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media Ongoing HP brand LTO media testing The table and charts show some of the key quality control procedures used by HP to ensure the safety of your data. In every instance, successful completion requires no user capacity loss, and no significant degradation in transfer rates or error rates. For example, HP LTO-6 Constant Transfer Rate Performance testing.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media Test Description Full Volume Green Tape test A series of full volume write/read operations are conducted using at least 200 new (green) cartridges using HP and non-HP drives. This test supports customers that use brand new cartridges for each and every backup and restore operation – e.g. in archival activities. Full Volume Life test Multiple full volume write/read operations are conducted using a single cartridge on HP and non-HP drives.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media HP LTO Ultrium Archival Life testing If you place a tape into an archive and a legal officer, sales manager, publisher or newsroom manager asked you to produce the data ten years from now, how certain would you be that it would be preserved, complete and good as new? The uncontrollable growth of data, combined with the necessity of keeping it safe, means that tape storage is still the best solution when it comes to long term archiving.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media How HP LTO-6 stood the test of time There are a number of technologies that converge to make HP LTO-6 Metal Particle tape one of the most reliable technologies for long term archiving: • Thinner magnetic coatings to improve recording performance at high recording densities. • Smaller, finer particles to support increased capacities. • Smooth tape surface to help improve overall tape solution reliability (with HP drives).
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media HP LTO-6 Ultrium Storage Media Interleave testing An extreme comparison of BaFe and MP green tape performance Use a new HP LTO-6 BaFe tape with a non-HP drive • Use a brand new HP LTO-6 Ultrium BaFe tape • Use a non-HP drive • Make a full volume backup Exchange the BaFe tape for a brand new MP tape Exchange the MP tape for a brand new BaFe tape • Replace the HP LTO-6 Ultrium BaFe tape with a brand new HP LTO-6 Ultrium MP tape • Replace the HP LTO-6 Ultrium MP ta
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media The ultimate interchange reliability test for an archival usage model There are several reasons why this is the ultimate interchange reliability test. Brand new media – sometimes called green tape is the most demanding for a tape drive to work with. That is because new cartridges have not yet been subject to the ‘smoothing’ that occurs over time as media is used more repeatedly, making re-used tapes less abrasive than green tapes.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media Conclusion Only by having the most reliable media can we offer you the most reliable restore. HP understands that backup and archiving are not some disconnected IT processes removed from the rest of your business activities, because one day, vital customer information, important orders or even the business itself could depend on a restore from tape.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media The driving power of big numbers HP’s mobile app, which had been developed for the Cape to Cape world record tour, was integrated closely with social media, providing the perfect opportunity to examine a campaign in-depth and use HP’s big data solutions to interpret the 1.8 billion rows of raw data and 53,000 single social media interactions.
Brochure | HP LTO Ultrium Storage Media Usage based insurance Pay-as-you-drive Enhanced customer retention Optimize social media based communication Communication effectiveness Road maintenance optimization Decision support for the sound utilization of public resources An insurance company could reward safer driving with a reduction in premium.
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