ADIC Scalar 10K Tape Library Adds Support For IBM Enterprise Tape Drive Technology; Offers Consolidated Support for Enterprise Backup and Active Archiving Functions.REDMOND, Wash. -- Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), leading provider of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for the open system, announced today that the company will add the 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) (R) TotalStorage(R) 3592 enterprise tape drive to the list of supported technologies offered in its largest backup and archive tape library, the 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) 10K. By integrating high performance, fast access 3592 drives and media, ADIC's Scalar 10K lets end users more effectively consolidate all of their tape-based applications for enterprise backup and archiving in a single high capacity, 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. solution fully backed by a consolidated service team. The announcement provides important new options for IT departments in data intensive industries where certain access to very large data sets is paramount, including science and engineering, imaging applications in oil and gas exploration, geospatial Geospatial is a term widely used to describe the combination of spatial software and analytical methods with terrestrial or geographic datasets. The term is often used in conjunction with geographic information systems and geomatics. data analysis, and specialized satellite imagery Satellite imagery consists of photographs of Earth or other planets made from artificial satellites. History The first satellite photographs of Earth were made August 14, 1959 by the US satellite Explorer 6. capture. The new drive technology provides a natural complement to ADIC's StorNext(R) data management software, widely used to manage large data sets in these same environments. The IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Drive 3592 is the industry's premier large form-factor enterprise-class tape drive, offering high capacity, high sustained throughput, rapid search speeds, and reliability in high duty cycle environments. Offering positions for up to 208 drives and 11,386 tape cartridges See cartridge. , the Scalar 10K becomes the industry's largest single library for any drive in the large-form factor, enterprise tape drive class. It is the first system using drives of this class to offer more than 3 Petabytes of data in a single system, without using pass-through ports or robot-to-robot cartridge (1) See phono cartridge. (2) A removable storage module that contains magnetic disks, optical discs, magnetic tape or memory chips. Cartridges are inserted into slots in the drive, printer or computer. exchanges. The Scalar 10K is also the only fully-supported independent library solution for enterprise tape drives. "The Scalar 10K is the first library system to combine high availability library architecture and multi-petabyte capacity with the 3592's high performance drive technology," 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 Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Integrating 3592 technology allows us to offer IT departments a solution that can consolidate even the most challenging backup and archive tasks in a single solution. Combined with the heterogeneous support offered by ADIC's StorNext data management software, this new library will form the core of a solution that will meet users' changing storage needs far into the future." "IBM enterprise tape drives are designed to provide high capacity and performance for storing mission critical data," said Glen Allen Glen Allen is the name of several places in the United States of America:
The Scalar 10K is the first library available for enterprise-class drives to offer high availability options that include a parallel, dual-aisle design with fully redundant 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 and controllers. The dual-aisle Scalar 10K provides fast, dual robotic cartridge retrieval times, and it allows the library to remain operational with continuous access to key user data through virtually all normal service procedures and fault conditions. The Scalar 10K, which earlier this year announced support for the latest LTO-3 drive models, now allows users to mix 3592 technology 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. and SDLT (Super DLT) See DLT. drives and media in a single system. For all the technologies, the library features capacity-on-demand scalability to provide a seamless growth path. The 3592 drives offer cartridge capacities of up to 300 GB per tape (native), 40 MB/second native throughput per drive, and 8 meter/second on-tape search speeds for fast access to data. The Scalar 10K can store up to 11,386 3592 cartridges for up to 3.416 native petabytes of data. About the Scalar 10K The ADIC Scalar 10K enterprise library lets IT departments consolidate backup and archiving operations in a single, easily managed resource. It offers capacity-on-demand scalability, allowing users to increase storage by activating additional capacity whenever they need it, along with industry-leading scalability, capacity, availability, and technology independence. The Scalar 10K's management tools offer integrated SAN support and device-level security that includes the industry's first built-in SAN firewall. A fully redundant library architecture option supports dual robotics, controllers, power, and library control paths to provide continual access to data through virtually all service operations. About ADIC Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a leading provider of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions to the open systems marketplace. ADIC 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.* The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances, and disk-based backup and restore 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, OEMs and partnerships, including Apple, 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, 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, HP, IBM and Sun. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. *Market Share: Gartner Dataquest, Tape Automation Systems Market Shares, 2003, F. Yale, April 2004. ADIC, Pathlight, StorNext, and Scalar 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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