On the tenth day…

Posted on Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm.

Written by Spectra Logic

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Containers for stuff are unbelievably handy. Think how difficult it would be to bring home a dozen eggs if you didn’t have an egg carton in which to carry them? Backpacks for books make getting to and from school a lot easier – even if the books are never removed from the backpack! (There’s probably a lump of coal waiting for that kid.) What about jolly ol’ Santa’s ability to make worldwide delivery without his trusty, fur-lined red bag and sleigh? I don’t think the reindeer will be delivering toys to all the girls and boys one at a time, do you?

When it comes to handling tapes and moving them off site, bringing them back, or buying them in the first place, moving tapes 10 at a time instead of 1 at a time makes tape storage administrators a whole lot happier!

Just think, if your storage admin had a nifty case with which to move tapes, you’d probably get something from him or her for Christmas other than that has-been fruitcake we referenced a couple days ago.

Spectra Logic is the only provider of TeraPacks which contain 10 LTO tapes per pack. This makes transporting, importing, and exporting tapes from your library 10 times easier than with any other competitor. If it’s ease you want, give us a call and we’ll help make your storage admin’s holiday season a little bit brighter.

On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:

10 Tapes in a TeraPack

9 Site Replications

8 Spectra Archive Files

7 /24 Support

6 T680’s

5 Tapes without Pain!

4 Global Spare Drives,

3 Encryption Keys,

2 Spectra Certified Tapes,

and a large frosty beer.

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"When we set out on our search to find a storage solution capable of preserving Imperial War Museums’ substantial digital archive, there were specific criteria on which we were not willing to compromise. Spectra met all of our requirements and then some, and now continues to deliver with StorCycle’s storage lifecycle management capabilities."

– Ian Crawford, Chief Information Officer, Imperial War Museums

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– Eric Grau, Manager – Media Asset Management, Joyce Meyer Ministries

"We appreciate the collaborative relationship and Spectra’s attentiveness to incorporating our feedback and ideas into solution enhancements. Our continuing investment into Spectra technology on behalf of our organization has proven invaluable in helping us implement the next level architectural model taking us into the future."

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– HPC Linux Systems Engineer, OLCF

"The new library has just shy of 14,000 slots for tapes. We were able to easily move all 70 petabytes of existing data into the new system and have grown to 104 petabytes in size and have plenty of room for at least a year or two before we have to start thinking about expanding."

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– Jeffrey McDonald, director of IT, Hormel Institute at University of Minnesota

"We have to store a lot of data for long periods of time. A single microscope can capture 10TB of data in as little as a few hours, and a published breakthrough on cancer research can take anywhere from a few years to a couple of decades. The BlackPearl and tape solution from Spectra provides a scalable and cost-effective way to store multiple data workflows with varying retention requirements."

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