The HP Ultrium Tape Blades are ideal for HP Blade System c-Class customers who need an integrated data protection solution. These half-height tape blades provides direct attach data protection for the adjacent server & network backup protection for all data residing within the enclosure. HP Ultrium Tape Blades offer a complete data protection, disaster recovery & archiving solution for Blade System c-Class customers. With HP Tape Assure customers can be confident that their data is safe by monitoring drive & media utilization, operational performance & life/health information for drive & media. In addition, each tape blade supports HP One-Button Disaster Recovery (OBDR), which allows quick recovery of the operating system, applications & data from the latest full backup set. HP Ultrium Tape Blades are the industry's first tape blades & are developed exclusively for HP Blade System c-Class enclosures.