As one of the principal responsibilities of enterprise IT, data backup and restore,
off-site archive, and disaster recovery operations are becoming a major focus of new "green IT" initiatives. Many companies use tape for these processes because of its reliability, longevity, portability, and relative ease of management. Tape backup solutions are widely considered one of the "greenest" and most cost-effective approaches for storing and archiving large volumes of data. If you're an administrator challenged to "go green" and are searching for a solution that optimizes tape backup performance, reduces waste, and requires less manpower, then consider ReadVerify™ Appliance (RVA) as a cost effective solution to meet your needs.

What is RVA?

RVA is a stand-alone solution that proactively monitors tape backups and reports cartridge and drive statistics collected during backup operations. It provides insight into media utilization and the health of backup environments, allowing administrators to solve issues before they become costly, risky, and time consuming. Automatic alerting and reporting functionality provides information on impending media and drive failures as well as overall utilization and performance of tape media and drives. Reports can be used for load balancing and to proactively address impending media, and hardware failure before they threaten your organization's backup health.

As an optional feature for RVA, ArchiveVerify™ enables users to ensure what has been written to tape can be read for recovery or compliance audits. Effective management of tape drives and tape media can be a major contributor to reducing backup failures and recovery errors while minimizing process time, thus avoiding redundant operations, helping conserve resources and achieving green initiatives.

For more information about RVA and how it can help your backup environment
"go green," visit the Related Information links located on this page.