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Spectra Logic is excited to announce our second product of the year award for the Spectra TFinity tape library. Brian Grainger of Spectra attended the second annual Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) Data Intensive Impact Awards event yesterday and accepted the award.
Avetec Announces DICE Awards for High Performance Computing Innovation
DEARBORN, Mich. (April 15, 2010) – Avetec’s High Performance Computing (HPC) Research Division – the Data Intensive Computing Environment (DICE) – today awarded the 2nd annual DICE Data Intensive Impact Awards to showcase products and technologies that have enabled progress in HPC data management in locality, movement, manipulation and integrity, as well as power and cooling efficiencies.
Entertainment Tonight Selects Three-Frame Spectra T950 to House, Manage and Retain 1.3 Petabyte Digital Archive
Spectra Logic Chosen Due to Low Maintenance Costs and Ease Of Operations
=&0=&Backup, Archive, HSM – What’s the Difference Anyway?
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One of the interesting things I have discovered since I have been talking with so many HPC customers is that the term “backup” is seldom used. You might ask if they aren’t doing traditional backups, then why would we, a backup solutions provider, want to talk to them. Well, first you need to fully understand the difference between backup and archive. Archive is a word you will hear more often in the HPC and M&E environments, especially if there is data in excess of the petabyte range and large files that aren’t accessed frequently but need to be kept indefinitely.
Spectra Logic to Present and Exhibit During Spring 2010 Tradeshow Season
Spectra to Attend Industry Events NAB, SNW, IDC HPC User Forum and C-Drive 2010
BOULDER, Colo.—April 5, 2010—Spectra Logic, celebrating 30 years of data storage innovation, has announced it will be presenting at a number of industry events this spring, including the 2010 National Association of Broadcasters Show (NAB) in Las Vegas, Nevada; Storage Networking World (SNW) in Orlando, Fla.; the IDC HPC User Forum in Dearborn, Mich. and Compellent’s C-Drive 2010 in Minneapolis, Minn. Spectra Logic executives will present on timely storage and HPC topics at three of the four events.
Spectra Logic Awarded 2010 Everything Channel Partner Program Guide and Five-Star Partner Rating
SpectraEDGE Channel Partner Program Recognized as Exceptional by Leading Channel Authority
=&0=&Spectra Logic Ranks in Top Ten Percent of Government GSA Contractors for Third Consecutive Year
Spectra Logic Added New Products and Services to GSA Schedule 70 in 2009
=&0=&No Question About it: Sometimes Tape is the Answer
Dear Ms. Meade:
My data crunching company generates 2-3 TB of data per customer, and I need to store that somehow. However, I don’t have room for a tape library. The only thing I can think to do is put the data on some hard drives using Linux-based RAID software, then put the disk in a safety deposit box. Do you have any other suggestions?”
Sincerely,
Short on Space
Spectra Logic Protects Critical Biomedical Research Data at Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI)
The Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, a part of the Novartis Research Foundation, Relies on Spectra T950 Tape Libraries for Scalable, High-Density Archiving
Question: Can Disk Replace Tape? Answer: Unobtanium
Dear Ms. Meade,
I am charged with architecting a backup system without any single points of failure. Obviously, tape is SO failure-prone that I am not including it at all. How do you think I should configure such a system?
Sincerely,
Tape is Doomed
"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
"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."
– Eric Grau, Manager – Media Asset Management, Joyce Meyer Ministries
"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."
– HPC Linux Systems Engineer, OLCF
"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."
– Jeffrey McDonald, director of IT, Hormel Institute at University of Minnesota
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