Archival storage solutions are important for all organizations, big and small, everywhere in the world. The following changes in business practices and government oversight make an archival storage strategy essential:
Regulation - government and industry agencies have increased enforcement of existing regulations controlling data retention and instituted new, more stringent controls.
Litigation - the financial and management burden of litigation continues to grow. Providing authenticity and well-documented audit trails are crucial elements for protecting any organization.
Benefits - organizations are using long-term knowledge resources to make better decisions, lower costs, reduce time-to-market and improved customer loyalty.
UDO is the new standard for professional optical storage. Based on ultra density, blue laser technology, it is the recognized successor to 5.25 inch MO (Magneto Optical) storage and is available in both Rewritable and true Write Once media formats.
UDO provides absolute data authenticity for regulatory compliance or for any application where archived information must remain 100% unchanged. UDO's patented Phase Change recording process permanently alters the molecular structure of true Write Once media, ensuring data integrity at the most fundamental level.
Rapidly growing archive data volumes demand solutions with high initial capacity and flexibility to scale over time. Blue laser technology give 30GB UDO a three-fold increase in storage capacity compared to previous generation MO (Magneto OPtical) and DVD technologies. The removability of UDO cartridges, combined with the on-line media management capabilities of optical storage libraries, means scalability is essentially unlimited.
Knowledge assets are useless if they cannot be accessed when needed. UDO has fast 35-millisecond random access capability, facilitating timely retrieval of relevant data.
UDO has a highly competitive archival storage TCO. With attractively priced 30GB media, the acquisition cost of a UDO library compares favorably with much less reliable tape or DVD solutions and costs a fraction of hard disk-based systems. UDO's ISO standard 5.25 inch media cartridge, which permits the use of MO and UDO media in the same library, eliminating the necessity for migration from 9.1 MO media. Planned introductions of backward-compatible 60GB and 120GB UDO drives guarantee investment protection and minimize future migration expense.