ADIC Announces Shipment of 50,000th FastStor Tape Library; Award-Winning Entry-level Library First High Density, Low-Cost Intelligent Storage Platform.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 2001 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) today announced that it has shipped its 50,000th FastStor(R) tape library, the revolutionary entry-level DLT/LTO tape storage platform designed to deliver cost-effective, high-density data backup to the open system market. FastStor libraries are shipped both under the ADIC(R) brand and through a number of leading system OEMs including Dell, Fujitsu Siemens (Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Inc. (USA), Milpitas, CA, www.fujitsu-siemens.com) Fujitsu Siemens Computers USA is a wholly owned research and development subsidiary of Fujitsu Siemens Computers. and IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) . "FastStor was one of the industry's first examples of intelligent storage design, and it is arguably the industry's most successful DLT/LTO library platform," said Bill Britts, ADIC executive vice president of Sales and Marketing. "It revolutionized the entry-level library market by delivering the right mix of density, performance, reliability, ease of use and cost-effectiveness for the exploding data storage needs of small offices and workgroups. The result was multiple awards for product innovation and record shipments both in its ADIC branded configurations and for our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners." "The 50,000 unit milestone is a significant one for any tape automation platform, and FastStor continues to hold a leadership position," commented Robert Abraham Robert Abraham (born July 13, 1960 in Myrtle Beach, SC) was an American football player who was a linebacker for the Houston Oilers. , President of Freeman Reports A series of technical reports on data storage devices originally developed by Freeman Associates, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (www.freemaninc.com). For more than two decades, they provided exhaustive detail about the disk and tape industry, including up-to-date data on technology, capacities, . "In 2000, ADIC led this segment of the tape automation market with a 52% market share." "ADIC has built on its FastStor success and now leads the industry in delivering intelligent storage solutions for much larger systems, as well, through our Scalar and AML AML - A Manufacturing Language library platforms," Mr. Britts said. "In these products, we pioneered mixed-media library operation, capacity-on-demand scalability, high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. library architecture, and have built the first tape libraries with fully integrated storage network support." ADIC's FastStor libraries provide the capacity and performance needed to support a full month or more of unattended backup, allowing smaller installations to enjoy the cost, capacity and up-time benefits traditionally associated with enterprise-level data protection systems. The compact units hold 7 or 22 tapes in an extremely dense, desktop or rack-mountable chassis. In a rack setting, FastStor units allow the mounting of up to 22 cartridges, more than 1.5 TBs of data storage, in only 5 rack units (less than 9 vertical inches). FastStor libraries are available with 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. 1, DLT4000, DLT7000, DLT8000 and LTO (Linear Tape Open) A family of open magnetic tape standards developed by HP, IBM and Quantum (formerly the Certance subsidiary of Seagate) that are licensed to third-party vendors. LTO cartridges contain a memory that stores historical usage data. Ultrium drives, delivering throughput speeds of up to 108 GB/hour. List prices for FastStor start at $4,795. About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading storage solutions provider to the open systems marketplace, offering a broad range of Intelligent Storage(TM) products designed to enhance organizations' abilities to store, protect, manage and use their rapidly growing network data. ADIC products include technology-independent automated storage systems, specialized storage management software, and multiple-protocol storage networking (SAN/NAS) connectivity and management tools. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Dell, EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. , Fujitsu-Siemens and IBM. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. ADIC and FastStor are registered trademarks and Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other product or service marks mentioned in this release should be considered the property of their respective owners. |
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