ADIC Celebrates Two Years of Capacity-on-Demand Libraries.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 29, 2003 Fourth-Generation Scalable Architecture Produced New Delivery Model in 2001; Current Libraries Add Intelligence, Monitoring, Integration with Disk Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), leader in Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for the open system market, announced today that the Company is celebrating this month the two-year anniversary of its first delivery of on-demand capacity upgrades for its family of automated au·to·mate v. au·to·mat·ed, au·to·mat·ing, au·to·mates v.tr. 1. To convert to automatic operation: automate a factory. 2. tape library solutions. First introduced to the market as a feature of ADIC's Scalar scalar, quantity or number possessing only sign and magnitude, e.g., the real numbers (see number), in contrast to vectors and tensors; scalars obey the rules of elementary algebra. Many physical quantities have scalar values, e.g. 10K enterprise tape library in June of 2001, capacity-on-demand allows libraries to grow in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with IT storage requirements and to let users pay for storage only as they actually use it. The ADIC capacity-on-demand delivery system provides installed capacity that IT departments access through a simple non-disruptive software upgrade. When utilization of installed capacity approaches 100%, ADIC delivers expansion modules free of charge to provide more room for growth. "The need for capacity-on-demand is made clear by looking at its history -- we shipped our first production Scalar 10K libraries in the spring of 2001, and by September we had the first customers expanding their installed systems," explained Scott Roza, ADIC Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Capacity-on-demand gets IT departments out of the business of buying hardware, and lets them purchase what they really need -- capacity." Linear Scalability is Required What is first required to make capacity-on-demand possible in libraries is an architecture that allows the library to grow with data linearly, without requiring multiple separate robotics robotics, science and technology of general purpose, programmable machine systems. Contrary to the popular fiction image of robots as ambulatory machines of human appearance capable of performing almost any task, most robotic systems are anchored to fixed positions or awkward systems for passing tapes between libraries. "When we launched the Scalar 10K," Mr Roza continued, "it was our fourth-generation of products built around that high-performance, high-value scalability model. That experience put us in a great position to take the next step -- letting users defer de·fer 1 v. de·ferred, de·fer·ring, de·fers v.tr. 1. To put off; postpone. 2. To postpone the induction of (one eligible for the military draft). v.intr. paying for capacity until they actually need it, while at the same time keeping management overhead low. "The capacity-on-demand model was such an overwhelming preference among Scalar 10K customers that we brought the concept to users needing as few as 100 tapes when we launched our fifth-generation linear scalable library, the Scalar i2000, early this year." Next Stage in Library Evolution is Intelligence and Layer of Disk Library innovation at ADIC has expanded beyond scalability and capacity-on-demand. The company's Scalar i2000 became the industry's first automated tape system to eliminate the need for external library control servers by integrating a server-class controller inside the library. Fully integrated functions that the Scalar i2000 library offers include library partitioning To divide a resource or application into smaller pieces. See partition, application partitioning and PDQ. , internal library and external SAN monitoring, pager and email alerting, path failover Invoking a secondary system to take over when the primary system fails. Up-to-date copies of all required data and applications are maintained on the secondary system in order to respond immediately if the primary system becomes unusable. Also called "fallover." See replication. , and component-level fault isolation. The next stage of library evolution was introduced this week, with ADIC's announcement of the Pathlight VX, the first backup solution to combine the benefits of disk and tape in a single, integrated data protection solution. The Pathlight VX works transparently with end users' existing backup and restore environments to provide disk performance and RAID reliability along with a fully automated path to tape for secure, long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. data retention. "It doesn't always follow that having the best, most innovative technology leads to market success, but in this case it has," Mr. Roza said. "Beginning in 2001, ADIC has been identified as the world-wide market share leader in the largest tape library segment. Our continuing investment in intelligent storage systems means that we expect to continue to lead the industry in both innovation and market share." About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC(R) is the world's largest supplier of automated tape systems using the drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server networks.(1) The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances, and disk-to-tape data protection solutions provide IT managers innovative tools for storing, managing and protecting their most valuable digital assets in a variety of disk and tape environments. ADIC storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and OEMs, including Cray (Cray, Inc., Seattle, WA, www.cray.com) A supercomputer manufacturer founded in 1972 as Cray Research, Inc., by Seymour Cray, a leading designer of large-scale computers at Control Data. In 1976, it shipped its first computer to Los Alamos National Laboratory. , Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, 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) , and Sun. For more information, visit www.adic.com. (1) Market position from : IDC 2001 worldwide revenue and unit market share data for all automated systems using 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. , SDLT (Super DLT) See DLT. , 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. , 8mm or AIT drives; and Gartner Dataquest, Tape Automation Systems Market Shares, 2002, F. Yale, April 2003. ADIC, Scalar and Pathlight are registered trademarks and Intelligent Storage is a trademark of Advanced Digital Information Corporation. All other trade or service marks mentioned in this document should be considered the property of their respective owners. |
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