By Matt Ninesling
Director of Hardware Engineering, Spectra Logic
Optimizing your data storage hardware is essential to getting the most out of your data. Even durable media like tape requires organizations to migrate data over time as new technology emerges with faster performance and higher capacities. Migration is an opportunity to reassess the capacity and throughput needs of your tape library, ensure the new solution you are considering is “migration-friendly” for future migrations, and determine if your selection aligns with your organization’s business goals, ethics, and direction.
Migrating from Oracle Tape Libraries While Protecting Your Investment in Drives and Media
Are you maintaining a system that is coming to the end of its development life? As the costs for parts and services increase and the quality of support decreases, organizations must come to terms with both the economic considerations and the risk of data loss or corruption associated with delaying a migration.
If you are still using an aging Oracle SL8500 or SL3000 tape library, it is time to consider a next-generation storage solution. Spectra Logic offers a comprehensive migration path to transform your data storage capabilities while ensuring a seamless transition.
Here are the top seven reasons to migrate from Oracle SL8500 or SL3000 to a Spectra tape library:
- Seamless migration options: Spectra offers both “soft” and “hard” migration as well as a “dual operation” option, ensuring a smooth transition from your existing Oracle tape library to a Spectra solution. Whether you prefer a quick and immediate shift or a more traditional approach, we’ve got you covered.
- Advanced technology integration: Spectra tape libraries are designed to integrate seamlessly with a wide range of tape technologies, including LTO, IBM TS Tape Technology, and Oracle T10000 Tape Technology. This means you have the flexibility to choose the tape technology that best suits your needs without being locked into a single vendor’s ecosystem. You’re no longer tied to a single vendor’s technology, giving you greater control over your data storage strategy.
- Wide range of replacement choices: With Spectra tape libraries, you have the freedom to select from various library models, including the Spectra Stack, T950, and TFinity ExaScale. Whether you require modular scalability on demand or the highest density storage solution to make the most of your data center footprint, there’s a Spectra library that fits your requirements.
- Investment protection: With Spectra, you can transfer existing LTO or Oracle T10000 tape drives from your Oracle tape library to the new Spectra library, ensuring your hardware investment is protected.
- Parallel operation: During the migration process, Oracle and Spectra tape libraries can run in parallel. New data writes are directed to the Spectra library, while restores from older media are seamlessly retrieved from the Oracle library. This ensures uninterrupted data access throughout the migration.
- Improved efficiency: Spectra tape libraries leverage cutting-edge robotics, like the High-Performance Transporter (HPT), to enhance efficiency and density. This leads to improved storage performance and reduces operational overhead. The HPT boasts patented robotics technology and can effortlessly handle all three tape models (LTO, TS, and T10K), making your data management tasks more efficient and reducing the risk of errors.
- Forward-looking technology: Spectra has a long-standing commitment to research and development, ensuring that our libraries keep pace with the latest advancements in data storage technology.
Data storage is important, and you should keep up with the latest technology to get the most out of your data. If you’re using an Oracle tape library, it’s time to switch to a new Spectra tape library to realize the cost savings and technological improvements of modern tape automation. Migrating from Oracle to a Spectra solution is easy, and we’re here to help you every step of the way.
Contact us to schedule a free consultation with a migration specialist.
