The HP Ultrium Tape Blades are ideal for HP BladeSystem c-Class customers who need an integrated data protection solution. These half-height tape blades provides direct attach data protection for the adjacent server and network backup protection for all data residing within the enclosure. HP Ultrium Tape Blades offer a complete data protection, disaster recovery and archiving solution for BladeSystem c-Class customers. With HP TapeAssure customers can be confident that their data is safe by monitoring drive and media utilization, operational performance and life/health information for drive and media. In addition, each tape blade supports HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR), which allows quick recovery of the operating system, applications and data from the latest full backup set. HP Ultrium Tape Blades are the industry's first tape blades and are developed exclusively for HP BladeSystem c-Class enclosures. - Increased capacity and performance with the SB3000c, with capacity up to 3 TB on a single data cartridge (2:1 compression) and performance up to 1 TB/hr (2:1 compression) Integrated Data Protection Solution for HP BladeSystem c-Class Customers - Tape-based data protection solution that integrates in the enclosure and utilizes enclosure management tools such as Onboard Administrator (OA). - HP Ultrium Tape Blades protect data occupying only a single half-height slot. - Complete Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Solution - HP Ultrium Tape Blades ship standard with HP Data Protector Express Basic Software. - HP TapeAssure offers customers the ability to make the best use of their investment and be confident that their data is safe by monitoring drive and media utilization, operational performance and life/health information for drive and media, allowing the switch from reactive to proactive management. - LTO-5 SB3000c and LTO-4 SB1760c Tape Blades offer AES 256-Bit hardware data encryption, providing easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. - HP Ultrium Tape Blades support HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR), which allows quick recovery of operating system, applications and data from the latest backup set in the event of a hard drive failure. Versatile Data Protection Solution - HP Ultrium Tape Blades provide direct attach data protection of adjacent server and network backup of all other data residing within the BladeSystem c-Class enclosure. Protects both half-height and full-height BladeSystem c-Class server blades. - Provided with HP LTO media, a free copy of HP Data Protector Express Basic Software which includes support for hardware data encryption and OBDR, cables and documentation.