StorageTek REELs Them In.StorageTek (Storage Technology Corporation, Louisville, CO) Acquired by Sun in 2005, StorageTek had been a leading provider of disk and tape storage solutions and services that was founded in 1969. announced the availability of REEL 5.0 software, a version of the company's storage management software with SAN capabilities. The product is scalable to benefit small to mid-sized computing computing - computer environments, as companies are required to handle more data. By eliminating the need to manually assign data to specific drives, the product improves backup operations and reduces errors. StorageTek's management software introduces new disaster recovery features, providing flexibility for customers with Fibre Channel-based SANs. In enterprise environments with as few as 20 servers and 500GB of data, for example, customers implementing a SAN with the product can save up to 65 percent in costs over direct-attached storage Direct-attached storage (DAS) refers to a digital storage system directly attached to a server or workstation, without a storage network in between. It is a retronym, mainly used to differentiate non-networked storage from SAN and NAS. . The software identifies available tape drives and allocates data to optimize optimize - optimisation drive resources. The data display can be customized to suit the user's needs for performance information. The REEL suite of storage management software's architecture provides maximum throughput The speed with which a computer processes data. It is a combination of internal processing speed, peripheral speeds (I/O) and the efficiency of the operating system and other system software all working together. 1. by streaming all backup data to any combination of locally or remotely attached tape drives in parallel. REEL software also provides a SAN-enabled data protection system. For more information, contact StorageTek at 800.786.7835 or visit the company's website at www.storagetek.com |
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