Key application
Backup & Archive Storage
High-density, low-cost-per-terabyte targets for backup, immutable retention, and long-term archive - sized to your retention policy and recovery objectives.
Key application
Backup & Archive
Backup and archive infrastructure is judged on the day something fails. NTS builds backup targets around two numbers most quotes ignore: how long a full restore takes at your required throughput, and whether the copy an attacker reaches can actually be altered or deleted.
Designs combine dense HDD enclosures for cost per terabyte, flash landing zones for fast ingest and instant recovery, and object or immutable tiers for retention and compliance. Everything is integrated, firmware-leveled, and burned in at Fremont, CA, and can be ordered on federal, defense, and SLED contract vehicles.
Use this application hub to map workloads to NTS platforms—GPU servers, storage tiers, and rack integration—with Fremont staging and contract-ready quoting when required.
Each card links to deeper catalog or solution paths. Request an architecture review if you need CLIN structure, lead times, or a dual-vendor GPU comparison.
Workload path
From application intent to validated BOM
Application hubs connect mission use cases to engineer-to-order systems.
Start with the cards below to explore related platforms and capabilities. NTS sizes CPU, accelerator, memory, storage, and fabric together so power, cooling, and drivers match the workload—not orphan SKUs.
Federal and SLED buyers can carry the same architecture onto approved vehicles. Commercial teams get the same staging discipline without the GWAC paperwork when it is not required.
Workloads on this page
Backup, recovery, and retention capabilities
The catalog code that maps to this page, plus the adjacent capability tiers NTS builds alongside it.
- Cost per usable terabyte
- Ingest and restore throughput
- Retention policy modeling
- Replication target nodes
- Cross-site copy sizing
- Recovery time validation
- Object lock and WORM tiers
- Air-gapped copy options
- Separate credential domain
- S3-compatible object pools
- 60 to 108 bay enclosures
- Erasure coding layouts
Frequently asked questions
From the protected data set, change rate, retention policy, and deduplication or compression assumptions - then from the restore side. NTS calculates usable capacity after erasure coding or RAID overhead, and confirms the design can restore at the throughput your recovery objective requires.
- Protected data, change rate, and retention
- Usable capacity after data protection overhead
- Restore throughput checked against RTO
Assume the attacker has administrator credentials. NTS designs an immutable or object-locked tier with a separate credential domain, retention that cannot be shortened from the backup console, and optional offline or air-gapped copies so at least one recovery point is untouchable.
- Object lock or WORM retention
- Separate credentials from primary domain
- Offline or air-gapped copy options
Both, in most designs. A flash landing zone absorbs the backup window and enables instant recovery of recent points, while dense disk carries retention at a much lower cost per terabyte. NTS models the crossover point so you are not paying flash prices for cold data.
- Flash landing zone for backup window
- Dense disk for long retention
- Modeled crossover between tiers
Enclosures are populated, firmware-leveled, and burned in before shipping, with drive maps, rack elevations, and as-built documentation. NTS can also stage the backup software or object stack so the system enters service as a working target rather than raw hardware.
- Drive population, firmware baseline, and burn-in
- Rack elevations and as-built documentation
- Optional backup or object software staging
