ADIC Ships Innovative Disk-Based Backup Solution; Pathlight VX First to Combine Disk Performance and RAID Reliability With Integrated Path to Tape.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2003 Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC), leader in Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions for the open systems market, announced today that it has begun shipping production units of its integrated disk-to-tape backup solution, the ADIC Pathlight(R) VX. "We're pleased to be shipping the first product in the industry to improve backup by combining the benefits of disk and tape in a single data protection solution," commented Scott Roza, ADIC Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "With Pathlight VX, backup and restore performance is boosted, RAID reliability is built in, and ownership costs stay low because the complete solution is designed to work transparently with users' existing environments and procedures." Pathlight VX gives enterprise IT departments disk performance and RAID reliability without requiring changes in how they backup, restore, and preserve their data. With Pathlight VX, backup and recovery times are reduced through a combination of random file access and the elimination of media loading. Because it supports automated export of standard format backup tapes See tape backup. , Pathlight VX provides these performance gains while it retains all of the advantages of traditional tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. , including long term data security, low cost scalability, and portability. With Pathlight VX, organizations can eliminate the problem of expanding data and shrinking backup windows by shifting the time when they write tapes. In the new model, data is written rapidly to the Pathlight VX disk array during the normal backup window. Then, during the rest of the day, the data is moved to the tape library in the background using an internal data mover Also called a "storage router," it is a device in a backup system that manages the transfer of data to the backup storage. See LAN free backup. and isolated connections to avoid slowing down application servers or increasing network traffic. Control for the integrated system is provided through the same backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. used to manage conventional tape library architectures, so the increased performance and fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. is provided without requiring users to change their existing backup procedures or applications. "The Pathlight series is one of the key milestones in our multi-year strategy to develop and acquire core technologies and integrate them into innovative solutions that solve real customer problems," said Peter van Oppen, ADIC Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "Its unique combination of performance, appliance-level integration, and policy-based data movement leverages the technology foundation that also created our StorNext data management software, Pathlight SAN appliances, and our 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. intelligent tape library solutions." 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.(a) 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, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, 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. Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com. (a) 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; Gartner Dataquest, 2002 Market Shares and Forecasts for Tape Automation Systems, F. Yale, August 2002; 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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