VTF™ Open, Diligent’s first generation virtual tape library is a software solution that emulates tape libraries, enabling existing backup applications to use disk, rather than tape, as their backup medium.
By utilizing disk in the backup operation, customers achieve much greater data throughput performance, high availability, data protection (RAID, mirroring, replication), reduced mechanical and human errors, and rapid recoverability.
- Benefits of Virtual Tape. Virtual Tape has recently emerged as the easiest, most effective method of deploying disk in the open systems data protection environment. Benefits of virtual tape include:
- Dramatically improved backup and recovery times
- Increased backup reliability
- Improved data center productivity
- Reduced tape equipment and media costs
- Non-Disruptive Deployment. Because VTF Open exactly emulates existing tape libraries, customers do not need to change existing backup policies, practices or procedures.
VTF Open runs on a dedicated server that is connected to a Fibre Channel attached disk array. The combination of the software, server and array create a virtual tape solution that appears to the backup application as one or many real tape libraries.
