StorageTek charges forward with ILM strategy
StorageTek charges forward with ILM strategy
StorageTek is set to unveil a new tape system which aims to make life easier for companies seeking solutions to compliance regulations for data retention that threaten to overwhelm many businesses.
The new StreamLine SL500 modular tape library will be released this week at the Storage World Conference 2004, in Long Beach, California.
In addition, StorageTek is also expected to announce new software and a partnership with Sun Microsystems.
The new SL500 tape library will use the capabilities of the company's SL8500 to introduce enterprise standard features to smaller sized businesses.
It will offer mixed media support to help companies to consolidate UNIX and Windows computer systems and include incremental upgrades of capacity throughout.
This system starts at 30 LTO cartridges and scales to over 500 LTO cartridges whilst storing over 100 terabytes of data.
In addition, StorageTek has also produced The Backup Resource Monitor, which allows users to view data in storage operations through a single window view. It allows customers to monitor a single library, a backup application and up to two SAN switches.
StorageTek will also announce the release of an open systems version of its Virtual Storage Manager software product; a compliance edition of an HSM (hierarchical storage manager) product; and a WORM (write-once read-many) technology that works across both disk and tape.
These products are aimed at addressing the four major problems - managing the complexity of storage, handling primary storage, dealing with backup and recovery, and archiving and compliance.
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