Archive Manager is priced on a simple
tape library capacity model.
The new
tape library is the first using LTO-5 half-height cartridges to come out of Oracle since the company acquired StorageTek in 2009 when it bought Sun Microsystems in 2009.
By stripping out duplicate data before it's replicated, ProtecTIER customers have experienced a reduction in bandwidth needed to send the data of up to 95% or more, reducing the amount of storage needed to archive and protect data (11); and Enhancements to the TS7700 Virtual
Tape Library family include doubling the number of virtual tape cartridges it contains to 2 million and leveraging IBM POWER7 technology to significantly improve performance, delivering 70% better performance than a comparable Oracle offering (12).
One final consideration: If all the
tape library manufacturers offer their products with native Fibre Channel LTO 3 drives, how will they distinguish theirs against the competitor?
"The fall off in media accounts for much of the reduction in our tape revenue, because the decline in our
tape library sales was offset by our tape drive business," Martin said.
Sony Electronics offers a series of PetaSite
tape library systems based on SAIT drive technology--the industry's highest-capacity data tape technology.
Al Aan TV has contracted TSL to upgrade its archive management system, including its
tape library and media software.
A Quest NetVault server is now connected to a
tape library through a dedicated backup switch and handles all the LAN-based backups.
Incomparable User Benefits:* Performance: Handles maximum native transfer speeds of 240Mb/sec thanks to 2 LTO-4 drives using an SAS or Fibre Channel connection* Modularity: With 24 cartridges as standard, it is possible to upgrade later to 32 or 40 cartridges* High availability: many components can be easily replaced (cold swap), particularly the tape drives.* Simplified administration: Thanks to its Web interface, the
tape library enables you to monitor, configure and remotely control all functions through its intuitive control panel.Automated Data Protection For Improved AvailabilityRegular, ordered backups are essential to effectively protect a company's data.
The business uses three SANs--one to support real-time data replication for a disaster recovery system, one to support data backup to a
tape library at the secondary site each evening and one to support intermittent host-to-remote-disk services.
Advanced Digital Information Corporation, the leader in Intelligent Storage solutions for the open systems market, has announced an upgrade to its Scalar 100 enterprise
tape library designed to make it easier for IT departments to support mixed backup architectures and reduce overall ownership costs.