ADIC AMASS for UNIX software extends infinite file life to new media.Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) announced recently the availability of a new release of the company's archive software, AMASS (Archive Management And Storage System) Tape management software for Unix from Quantum Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO (www.quantum.com). Originally developed by ADIC, AMASS makes the tape library look like an infinite disk drive to the application. for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). . AMASS is designed to provide long term automated access to organizations' key digital assets in a variety of high capacity, removable storage media types. The new version of AMASS, release 5.3.2, adds support for new storage devices and media, and it extends the company's exclusive Infinite File Life (IFL IFL International Fight League (mixed martial arts) IFL Integrated Facility for Linux (IBM) IFL Intense Football League IFL Indoor Football League IFL I'm Feeling Lucky (Google) ) long-term data integrity feature to Sony's AIT media. ADIC's Infinite File Life (IFL) is an industry-exclusive feature that protects stored data from becoming lost or corrupted over time. IFL tests the integrity of data by periodically checking the rate of recoverable errors found in stored files. When error rates pass a defined threshold, the data is written to new media before any of the information in the file can be lost. The new AMASS release extends IFL capabilities to devices using Sony's AIT media, a tape format that provides rapid access to stored data and is widely used for long term archiving applications. "Organizations faced with long-term records retention requirements always face the problem of making sure that the information stored--as distinct from the media itself--remains intact," said Bill Yaman, ADIC Vice President, Software. "ADIC's Infinite File Life helps make sure that the integrity of retained data can be maintained automatically over many years independent of the media it is stored on." The new AMASS release also adds new support for storage devices, including the Plasmon Enterprise D Series DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. library, Quantum Super DLT (Digital Linear Tape) A magnetic tape technology originally developed by Digital for its VAX line. The technology was later sold to Quantum, which makes it available to other manufacturers. DLT uses half-inch, single-hub cartridges similar to IBM's 3480/3490/3590 line. 220 tape drives, and Ampex 314 tape drives. Support is also extended to version 6.1 of StorageTek's Automatic Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS ACSLS Automatic Cartridge System Library Software ACSLS Automated Cartridge System Library Server ) tape library control software and the 2.3 release of ADIC's Scalar Distributed Library Controller (SDLC (Synchronous Data Link Control) The primary data link protocol used in IBM's SNA networks. It is a bit-oriented synchronous protocol that is a subset of the HDLC protocol. See SNA, DLC and Microsoft DLC. 1. ). AMASS is specialized storage management software that lets users, administrators, and applications archive large data sets on automated storage libraries and retrieve all or any portion of the data at any time. AMASS provides users with enormous storage capacity and cost savings with the look and feel of a hard disk, transforming devices typically considered "off-line storage" into truly online direct-access mass storage. |
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