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StorageTek Offers Highly Scalable SL500 Tape Library

Posted: 29.10.2010 01:42 |

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Companies that have to manage voluminous data amounts are facing an ongoing challenge of meeting their backup demands at lowest cost per GB. The volume of data is growing at an astounding rate. As the volume of information increases, the data administrators have to encounter new problems of complex system management.

IDC (International Data Corporation) forecasted in June 2010, that the volume of global file based storage by the year 2014 is expected to exceed 60 Exabytes. Oracle is a global leader that offers state-of-the-art midrange and enterprise tape storage solutions. Oracle’s library and tape solutions assist the data administrators to control costs, reliably preserve their data, manage complexity, and ensure superior performance on service level agreements.

Oracle has designed new high performance StorageTek SL500 tape library, which is the most scalable and high capacity library system designed to accelerate consolidation. Advanced architecture of StorageTek library empowers the customers to precisely scale the capacity to satisfy their rapidly growing business needs. SL500 tape library provide outstanding performance with large financial databases, data rich applications and file servers.

Oracle has intelligently designed the StorageTek library to support rack mount configuration, and the industry’s top tape formats including LTO-4 tape & LTO-5 tape. StorageTek SL500 library offers a powerful “any cartridge, any slot” technology that helps the data managers to create up to 8 partitions. Now you can seamlessly use multiple drives and tape cartridges.

StorageTek SL500 library offers highest reliability and superior scalability in its library class. The quantity of LTO cartridge slots has been increased to 575. You can install 30 to 575 LTO-5 and LTO4 tapes, which will provide maximum recording capacity of 862 TB (native). The capacity of SL500 tape library is almost 40% higher than the competing tape libraries. Up to 18 LTO drives can be integrated in StorageTek library, which boosts the native storage performance to 9 TB per hour.

For the convenience of readers, Part numbers of LTO ultrium cartridges and other major tape formats in mid-rage segment have been listed below:

Quantum LTO 5 tape
MR-L5MQN-01

Dell SDLT 1 tape
09W085

SLR-MLR tape

HP lto4 tape
C7974a

dlt-iv tape
C5141F

Sony DDS4 tape
DGD150PWW

Dell LTO ultrium 4 tapes, LTO4 tapes
341-4647
341-4640

Fuji DAT72 tape
26046172

HP RDX cartridge
Q2042A

Maxell DDS-3 tape
200025

With robustly designed SL500 tape library, the customers can save more space, power and valuable time by integrating multiple tape drives & media types into a central location. Oracle has included advanced data management features, firmware and robotic control interfaces that help to assure uninterrupted backup operations, superior data manageability and faster access to your data files. Continuous automation calibration reduces human interventions and need for periodic maintenance.

SL500 tape library features a special library console user-interface, which provides vital information reporting on library partitioning, media statistics and performance of the drives and cartridges. Advanced robotic system keeps an eye on the current storage performance, thus enabling the data administrators to take proactively. Hot swappable components of StorageTek library including fans and powers supplies help to increase the backup efficiency and minimize disruption. StorageTek library raises the bar on media durability and recording efficiency. Software & product names in this article are trademarks and sole property of their owners.

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