Chevron Canada Resources Selects ATL Products' P3000 DLTtape Library to Create Enterprise Storage Solution.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1999-- P3000's Massive Capacity, Throughput and Ease of Use Drive Centralization cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. of Storage Resources and Increase IT Efficiency ATL (Active Template Library) A set of software routines from Microsoft that provide the basic framework for creating ActiveX and COM objects. Stemming from the standard template library (STL) that comes with C++ compilers, ATL includes an object wizard that sets up Products, a leading supplier of intelligent DLTtape(TM) libraries for networked computers, Wednesday announced that Chevron Canada Resources, with headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, has selected its new P3000 Series 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. DLTtape Library as the key component in its mission to centralize cen·tral·ize v. cen·tral·ized, cen·tral·iz·ing, cen·tral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To draw into or toward a center; consolidate. 2. storage resources, administration and management. Chevron Canada Resources has implemented a P3000 configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: with eight 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 drives and 170 cartridges
Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). environments, and is the third ATL library, following the 520 Series and 7100 Series, to be implemented by Chevron Canada Resources. "Prior to installing our P3000, we had to perform separate NT and UNIX backups at various locations throughout the company. The backup process was labor and time intensive. We needed to centralize storage across our NT and UNIX platforms, which required a tape library with the capacity, throughput and reliability to replace all other tape storage devices," said Dave Lockhart, Network Systems Analyst at Chevron Canada Resources. "ATL's track record has been terrific, so when the opportunity presented itself to purchase their new P3000, we did not hesitate given the storage capacity and performance that we required." The P3000 is designed for easy installation, administration and service. It is delivered completely assembled and reduces the need for high-level system administration. The local user interface is an icon-based touch-screen GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. , which allows the P3000 to be easily configured, operated and serviced. With simple point-and-click finger-touch operations, users can identify or query the status of drives, cartridges, bins and the load port. At Chevron Canada Resources, the P3000 is configured with a Sun Sparc 60 host and VERITAS NetBackup software. This system is responsible for performing "lights out" backup for the entire facility including over 700 GB of near-line seismic, engineering, financial, accounting, e-mail and Web data stored, in addition to 700 GB of archived data. "In addition to providing totally automated backup, which streamlined IT operations, we realized a significant return on our initial library investment with ATL by migrating drives from our 7100 library to the P3000," added Lockhart. Additional P3000 Features Targeted at storage intensive applications, the P3000 library is designed to support up to 16 DLTtape drives and 326 cartridges for 288 gigabytes per hour performance and 11.4 terabytes of storage capacity. It represents another technological milestone for ATL, being the industry's first DLT library to feature a 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. , fans and AC sources. The hot-swap components allow for non-disruptive maintenance, while the redundant AC components allow on-line replacement and continual uptime if equipped with the company's revolutionary Prism d tape array controllers. P3000 Availabicts, call 800/677-6268 or send your request viad's DLTtape libraries. The DLTtape market is grL Products is in Irvine. An additional site in Irvine serves as one of the world's largest manufacturing facilities dedicated to DLTtape automation technology. Sales and service are provided throughout major cities in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europ DLTtape are trademarks of Quantum Corp. in the f their respective companies. The foregoing statements regarding performance and future products are forward looking statements and actual results could vary. Fa distribution channels and end-user customers. |
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