Ultera Tapes It Up With Exabyte.Ultera Systems and Exabyte Corporation announced a partnering relationship to deliver breakthroughs in backup performance and reliability with a new tape RAID solution built around Exabyte's 690D DLTtape library. This partnership offers backup to tape, while also providing a level of 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. . The Exabyte-Ultera tape RAID solution combines Exabyte's multi-terabyte scalable DLTtape 690D library with Ultera's Striper-3 Tape Array RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. to create a next-generation network backup solution that provides performance and 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. with data rates up to 144GB/hr. "This tape RAID solution offers backup time and assurance that the backup job will be successful," said Tim Studebaker, vice president of automation business at Exabyte. "With Ultera's tape RAID, customers not only increase throughput, shorteningthe required backup time, but they also receive a level of fault tolerance. This means this solution can sustain either a failure of a single drive or media without losing the backup job." The Exabyte 690D DLTtape library was designed to take advantage of the performance enhancements enabled by Ultera's Tape Array RAID technology. The library array solution is the result of a collaboration between Exabyte and Ultera engineers that empowers 690D customers to scale up to supercharge su·per·charge tr.v. su·per·charged, su·per·charg·ing, su·per·charg·es 1. To increase the power of (an engine, for example), as by fitting with a supercharger. 2. their backup operations by upgrading to tape RAID capability in a plug-and-play installation. An Ultera Striper or Imager array controller module can be installed into an internal compartment compartment a part of the body as a whole and divided from the rest by a physical partition. fluid compartment that liquid part of the body excluded by cell membranes. Includes intravascular and intercellular compartments. on the 690D that was designed for the 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 and system integrator who wants to incorporate Ultera's tape RAID technology directly within the library itself. The integration also enables a library operator to control the tape RAID controller via the front panel LCD on the Exabyte library. The result is the first turnkey DLTtape RAID product on the market. |
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