Ultera Masters The Tape Library.Ultera Systems recently introduced its product, LibraryMaster, bringing performance, 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. , and data recovery to the current generation of SCSI-based automated tape libraries. The array controller combines Ultera's controller technology with a new robotics control module to deliver an integrated solution to maximize a customer's investment in tape automation hardware and software. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Fred Bedard, vice president of sales and marketing for the company, "[This product] lets customers use their existing tape hardware and software and supercharges throughput and data reliability to unprecedented levels. [It] brings a new era of backup opportunities to the tape library market." The controller gives customers flexibility in designing data backup and recovery solutions. The array controller is available in an 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 version for integration within a library. Using a RAID 0 mode, the new product stripes the data across two or four tape drives to achieve throughput. Driving up to five tape drives in parallel, the new Ultera Systems tape array controller reads and writes data at four times the speed of conventional subsystems, while providing data recoverability in the event of a damaged or lost tape media or failed tape drive. Ultera's products provide plug-and-play compatibility with all major tape technologies and are designed to be fully compatible with any SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. robotic tape libraries. It transparently automates the mirrored tape sets, allowing fault-tolerant tape operations. The performance and reliability of the company's tape array controllers are 100% transparent to 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. applications, which recognize multiple libraries as a single device with multiple drives. For optimal performance, users can select the striping Interleaving or multiplexing data to increase speed. See disk striping. striping - data striping option that combines the bandwidth of multiple tape drives to create backup possible (increasing speed up to 400%) and/or the disaster-resistant mirroring configuration that creates multiple copies of every backup session for data protection with 100% data recovery. Ultera Systems' performance configuration utilizes the bandwidth of two or more tape drives to generate sustained backup speeds of up to 40MB/sec. The addition of a parity drive A separate disk drive that holds parity bits in a disk array. See RAID. enables RAID-3 operation to produce an extra layer of data protection and fault tolerance. Using this configuration, if one cartridge is damaged or lost or even if a tape drive fails, the controller will automatically restore and rebuild lost data by drawing from the remaining tapes for data recoverability. The mirroring mode guarantees data availability Refers to the degree to which data can be instantly accessed. The term is mostly associated with service levels that are set up either by the internal IT organization or that may be guaranteed by a third party datacenter or storage provider. , as all data is written to two or more drives simultaneously, creating multiple backup copies A disk, tape or other machine readable copy of a data or program file. Making backup copies is a discipline most computer users learn the hard way-- after months of work is lost. See backup and LAN free backup. in the same time it takes to record a single tape. An administrator can create multiple backup tapes, sending one set offsite to protect against disasters, while keeping another backup set stored inside the library for dual level of fault tolerance, In the case of a dual failure of a hard disk drive and the primary backup tapes, corporate data is safeguarded. Reseller models are available in table top or rackmount configurations. Availability is immediate with a suggested retail price of $14,550. |
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