StorageTek's data protection solutions help safeguard your dynamic, business-critical information. They help mitigate risk and facilitate business continuity in a cost-effective manner.

By using a multi-tiered strategy that encompasses disk, tape and policy-based management, StorageTek solutions maximize data protection while minimizing your IT investment. Your information will be protected according to its purpose and value, rather than under-protected or over-protected.

Data protection options include products and services that span tape, disk and software. The StorageTek Professional Services organization will help you design the appropriate data protection architecture taking into account how often recovery points are needed, how long you can wait for recovery and how long copies of data must be retained. The architecture will be based on a model of your growth and capacity needs-so you can cost-effectively manage your ever-increasing data expansion.

StorageTek's solutions encompass a broad range of data protection alternatives. For your business-critical applications (such as reservations, point-of-sale, stock transactions), near instant restores are available with the disk mirroring capabilities of FlexLine™ V-Series and FlexLine 200/300 Series storage systems. Daily backups and everyday recovery processes can be enhanced with StorageTek's new FlexLine 600 Series storage system in a disk-to-disk or disk-to-disk-to-tape backup schema.

A comprehensive data protection solution includes leading-edge tape technology as well as enterprise and mid-range disk in order to maximize operating efficiencies and lower your total cost of ownership. StorageTek can help you select among access-centric T9840C tape technology, capacity-centric T9940B tape technology and mid-range LTO and SDLT tape drives in a tape automation system that meets your specific capacity and performance requirements. And for those customers requiring a fully integrated solution with policy management, StorageTek's Virtual Storage Manager® (VSM®) system optimizes storage resource utilization efficiency.

No matter which alternative you choose, StorageTek's data protection solutions give you the confidence that your mission-critical data will be there when you need it.