T-Finity’s Modern Design Ensures Enduring Access to Data Archives and Backups for Enterprise IT, Federal, High Performance Computing and Media/Entertainment Organizations
BANGALORE, India – 09 September 2010— Spectra Logic, celebrating 30 years of data storage innovation, today announced the industry’s most advanced enterprise tape library that meets demanding archive and backup requirements while saving customers up to 30 percent on initial capital investments and 15 to 20 percent on annual recurring operational expenses. The Spectra T-FinityTM library offers multiple, redundant robots, scaling to more than 45 petabytes in a single library and to more than 180 petabytes in a single, unified library complex. The T-Finity is targeted for use in data-intensive environments such as large enterprise IT, federal, high performance computing (HPC) and media/entertainment.
“With escalating data volumes and retention requirements, organizations need large archive and backup solutions that ensure long-term data access. The Spectra T-FinityTM provides superior capacity and stored data access, and its modern design resets expectations on the economic savings achievable with tape storage solutions,” said Nicholas Harper, Vice President International. Spectra Logic. “The T-Finity library enables customers to consolidate multiple legacy libraries, reduce initial capital investments, control ongoing operational expense, and ensure investment protection with scalability to meet long-term data growth requirements.”
The Spectra T-FinityTM provides high availability for 24x7x365 operations - the highest storage density available on the market - and high-speed performance to handle sustained high transaction volumes. These capabilities meet the needs of demanding backup environments, and are key for the growing number of organizations archiving high volume, media-rich data such as research, bio-tech, oil and gas, seismic imaging, surveillance video, media and entertainment, video content and financial applications. And with support for industry-leading LTO open tape technology and IBM System Storage™ TS1130 tape drives, the Spectra T-FinityTM enables customers to select their preferred enterprise tape option.
Spectra T-FinityTM - Key Features
- Highest Density: At 72 terabytes per square foot, the T-Finity provides up to 70 percent higher density than competitive offerings. (2)
- Most Scalable: Almost 200 percent more capacity and slots in a single library than leading competitors,(3) the T-Finity scales to more than 30,000 slots in a single library and 120,000 slots in a single library complex. It scales capacity by adding frames non-disruptively, requiring no library downtime.
- High Availability Hardware: Delivers up to four nines (99.99%) availability through dual robotics, redundant control and communication paths, and multiple redundant components that increase uptime and support high exchange rate workloads.
- Confidence in Data Availability: Spectra’s Lifecycle Management includes proactive library, tape drive and media lifecycle management and reporting to ensure high availability and data integrity. No other library on the market offers this complete environmental and data health intelligence.
- Most Power Efficient: Extremely efficient, the T-Finity tape library uses half or less of the power per unit of data stored as competitive offerings,(4) minimizing power and cooling costs.
- Integrated Data Encryption and Key Management: Spectra’s data encryption enables organizations to secure data and reduce the cost of regulatory compliance.
- Unified Management: As the only enterprise-class library with a single management interface, the T-Finity uses Spectra’s BlueScale™ software to simplify administration, configuration, hot upgrades, security and local and remote reporting.
The Spectra T-Finity’s many 'built-in' features include: integrated data encryption; library virtualization and partitioning; and hardware, media and library management software – all included at no additional cost. Competitive offerings charge extra for these capabilities and require separate servers – increasing hardware, space, power, cooling, support contract and personnel management costs.
Spectra T-FinityTM - Awards & Recognition
- “Product of the Year” in the Professional Media and Entertainment Storage category at ninth Storage Visions Conference. The T-Finity's modern architecture was recognized for its unique ability to meet the demanding digital archiving requirements of the content-intensive media and entertainment industry.
- “Green Product of the Year” award at the 2010 Storage Awards (Storries VII), held in London. The Spectra T-Finity tape library is now recognized as the industry leader in power efficiency per stored TB of capacity. With a typical power usage of 0.873 kilowatts per hour with heat dissipation at 1.19 BTU/h/TB, the Spectra T-Finity significantly saves versus the closest competitors, which use two to six times more energy per unit of data stored.
Availability in India
Spectra Logic entire family of tape, deduplications and disk based data protection solutions are now available directly in India through its network of distributors, integration and reseller partners. For more details, please get in touch with sunnyj (at) spectralogic.com
