ADIC FibreReady Scalar 100 Released to Channel; First SAN Tape Library in Commercial Distribution with Serverless Backup Agent.Business/High Tech Editors REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2000 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) announced today the general availability of the FibreReady(TM) model of the company's new 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. (R) 100 automated tape library platform. The new automated storage system, which can be connected directly to Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs), is the first library ADIC has introduced into commercial distribution to offer an integrated agent with direct support for serverless backup A type of LAN free backup that does not use any of the resources of an application server or a backup server. See LAN free backup. . "SAN technology offers IT departments today's best option for increasing backup throughput, centralizing data protection tasks, and keeping large data transfer operations from interfering with LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. traffic," commented Jonathan Otis, ADIC vice president of Product Management. "And ADIC's Scalar libraries, with their scalability and FibreReady architecture have become a preferred choice for implementing SAN backup today." "Now, with serverless backup support built in, the Scalar 100 becomes a primary enabler of a new backup solution breakthrough that provides full SAN bandwidth utilization without interrupting normal server functions. The FibreReady Scalar 100 will join our smaller tape storage products in the same distributor-reseller channel that carries Wintel servers because we see SAN technology rapidly migrating into mainstream client-server sites." The FibreReady(TM) Scalar 100 is available as a single product, or as part of ADIC's Open SAN Backup solutions package. The Open SAN Backup package provides a complete SAN solution by combining open-market SAN infrastructure products (hubs, switches, host-bus adapters), FibreReady tape libraries, integration services, and single-call support. Serverless backup manages movement of data directly between disk and tape, removing network servers from the data path. It requires serverless backup-aware software, now available on the market, and an active agent located in the SAN, now available in the Scalar 100 and other ADIC FibreReady(TM) tape libraries, including the Scalar 1000. By separating backup from server operations, serverless backup removes CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. bottlenecks and frees servers and server-based network resources for other critical IT tasks. The FibreReady(TM) Scalar 100 is available today with DLTtape technology. It supports from one to six 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. 7000 or DLT8000 drives and from 30 to 60 cartridges for capacity of up to 4.8TB and throughput of up to 260 GB/hour. The Scalar 100 platform is also designed to support AIT, 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, and SDLT (Super DLT) See DLT. technology tape drives, all of which are slated to be introduced in Scalar 100 models later this year. Scalar 100 tape libraries in the field can be easily upgraded to a FibreReady(TM) model with a user-installable plug-in module that adds SAN connectivity and the serverless backup agent. List price for a FibreReady(TM) Scalar 100 starts at $28,975. About ADIC With an installed base of more than 60,000 automated libraries, innovative storage management software, Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, and Network Attach Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) appliances, ADIC is a leading device-independent storage solutions provider to the open systems marketplace. The Company offers a broad range of products designed to enhance organizations' ability to store, protect, manage and use their rapidly growing network data. ADIC's automated storage products are available through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers and 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) . Further information is available at http://www.adic.com. ADIC, Scalar, and FibreReady are trademarks 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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