Photo Credit: LTO Ultrium Patrick Osborne, general manager and vice president of HPE storage, said:
Despite significant business disruptions and uncertainty in 2021, LTO tape shipments achieved their largest increase since 2006, surpassing the previous record set in 2019. We are continuing to see organizations return to tape technology, looking for storage solutions that offer high capacity, reliability, long-term data archiving and stronger data protection measures, especially as threats cybersecurity goes up.
LTO tape is probably the simplest and cheapest method of getting ransomware recovery best practices. Ransomware and malware are threats that won't go away. Magnetic tape is an established, understood and proven technology that can be a valuable tool in defeating ransomware.
Photo Credit: LTO Ultrium Tape storage media offer some advantages over other more modern systems, such as greater data longevity and ease of storage, as well as providing an optimal method to defend against cyber attacks such as ransomware, With the large increase in attacks of this type in the last period, many companies have decided to review their backup strategies, in particular by implementing the 3-2-1-1 technique (three copies stored on two different media, with one offsite and one completely offline tape).