ADIC SCALAR STORAGE NETWORKING LIBRARIES ARE NOW ALL 2 GB FIBRE READY.Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), a provider of Intelligent Storage solutions, announced recently the upgrading of its entire family of 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. storage networking libraries to 2 Gb/second Fibre Channel interface. The announcement covers all Fibre Channel connected models of ADIC's Scalar 100, Scalar 1000, and Scalar 10K automated tape libraries. The Scalar line provides data protection and high capacity storage for the industry's widest range of IT environments -- from workgroups and remote offices to the largest enterprise data centers with models that support from 1 to over 600 drives and from 15 to over 15,000 data cartridges (1) A cartridge used to hold computer data. See cartridge. (2) (Data Cartridge) A 5.25" QIC-style magnetic tape technology that originally used the DC-6000 model designation. Tandberg Data (www.tandberg. . "We started shipping 2 Gb storage networking libraries in selected ADIC libraries beginning in July of 2001 and have a substantial installed base," said Bill Britts Bill Britt is one of the most successful Independent Business Owners (IBOs) in the Amway/Quixtar business. In 2002, together with his wife Peggy Britt, qualified for the corporations highest award; Founders Crown Ambassador. , ADIC executive vice president of Sales and Marketing. "Now that many of the leading SAN infrastructure suppliers are making 2 Gb products available, we have extended support for the newer, faster standard to all of our storage networking libraries, including both ADIC-branded and 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 models. For our customers, it means that all of their ADIC storage solutions will integrate easily into the latest generation of SAN environments and take full advantage of their systems' total performance capabilities." ADIC's Scalar series tape libraries were the industry's first integrated storage networking libraries. They pioneered the integration of SAN management services into automated libraries, offering built-in SAN security, integrated data path verification, redundant path support, error recovery, and performance optimization. The Scalar 100 is a scalable mid-range, rack optimized tape library that supports from 1 to 8 tape drives and from 15 to 96 tapes, depending on the configuration and technology selected. Available with 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. , S/DLT, and AIT technologies, the Scalar 100 holds up to 25 terabytes of data in only 14 rack units A unit of measurement of the height of a rack-mounted device. One rack unit, or RU, is 1.75". See rack mounted. . Internal upgrades allow the Scalar 100 to grow with users' data easily and quickly. The Scalar 1000 is a high performance scalable tape library that reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO (1) (Total Cost of Ownership) The cost of using a computer. It includes the cost of the hardware, software and upgrades as well as the cost of the inhouse staff and/or consultants that provide training and technical support. See ROI. ) in high growth environments. The Scalar 1000's barrier-free expansion systems allows it to grow easily with data while maintaining superior performance and reliability -- and eliminating use of pass-through ports. The Scalar 1000 supports from 1 to 48 drives, and from 118 to 1182 tapes. Supported technology includes LTO, S/DLT, AIT and 3590 in single or mixed-media configurations. The Scalar 10K was the first library in the industry designed for enterprise data consolidation. The Scalar 10K is the first enterprise library to offer capacity-on-demand upgrades and true 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. architecture. Its barrier-free scalability allows it to grow easily with users' data without using pass-through ports. The Scalar 10K is available in LTO, SDLT (Super DLT) See DLT. , AIT and mixed media configurations, supporting up to 648 drives and 15,885 cartridges for a total native capacity of up to 1,588 TB. |
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