Octane for Backup Tapes
Cost-effective access to files and email from legacy backup tapes without restoration

Legacy tapes have been ignored and left to pile up in off-site storage vaults, where it is becoming a threat, liability and growing cost.

Even though there is little chance of ever needing these tapes for restoration purposes; current legal, compliance and regulatory requirements have shed new light on legacy tapes making them a risk and a target for litigation and eDiscovery.

Octane for Backup Tapes' patented engine provides cost-effective direct tape indexing and extraction, which eliminates the need for bulk restoration of the content. Organizations are now empowered to directly index files and email on tapes, including the contents of user mailboxes, allowing for a comprehensive search of content and metadata to find individual items. This enables organizations to quickly cull tape data to what they need and only produce relevant files and email from tape.

Organizations that take full advantage of Octane’s direct tape access technology can control eDiscovery costs associated with backup tapes, as well as manage long-term liability of the content by remediating tape archives. Additionally, backup tape remediation reduces annual expenses related to legacy tape storage and recoups significant data center costs.

With Octane for Backup Tapes, You'll:

Reduces costs and complexity associated with managing and producing data from legacy backup tapes.

Simplify the extraction of files and email by eliminating the need for restoration with legacy backup software.

Rapid turnaround, extracting only what is needed, typically a small volume of data.

Process large volumes of data quickly with automated tape processing and minimal resources.

Manage long-term risk of legacy data according to corporate policy.

Reduce off-site storage expenses by eliminating high percentage of tapes.

Direct indexing, search and extraction of specific data files on backup tapes, without the need for the original software that created the tape.

Supports all common backup formats including NetBackup, Backup Exec, TSM, Commvault and many others.

Search and extract individual files based on full text and metadata criteria.

Comprehensive access to individual email content from MS Exchange (EDB, PST, etc.), IBM Notes (NSF) and more.

Efficient, high speed processing allows for bulk management of large volumes of tapes.

Rapidly deployable, no complex integration is required.

Put Octane for Backup Tapes to work for you, call (732) 817-1060 for more information or email