QUANTUM Corporation has announced the ATL P4000 and ATL P7000 libraries are now available with a gigabit ethernet (GbE) interface that provides the performance needed for Super DLTtape? and LTO Ultrium tape drives.
“This is an important enhancement to our backup solutions for Network Appliance and other certified network attached storage (NAS) filers,” says Simon Harvey, managing director, Quantum Data Protection Division, Asia/Pacific.
“As the volume of mission-critical data stored on NAS filers grows, organisations need a high-performance, easy-to-operate, scalable solution to protect this vital corporate information asset.”
The ATL P-Series libraries with integrated GbE interface provide a high-performance, automated backup system that can be shared by an unlimited number of NAS filers, significantly reducing equipment and management costs.
The solution for NAS filers leverages GbE for high-speed data movement and the network data management protocol (NDMP) standard for control. Business benefits include use of existing ethernet infrastructure; easily managed, centralised backup for reduced management costs; and higher performance backups for reduced backup windows.
To further enhance the already high performance of GbE, the solution can be used with jumbo frames (large Ethernet packets) for those network infrastructures that support this technology.
Quantum’s ATL P4000 and ATL P7000 tape libraries represent the highest density enterprise-class libraries on the market. The ATL P7000 has up to 16 tape drives and 679 cartridges and up to 149TB capacity and 1.7TB/h performance.
The ATL P7000 scales to 32 drives and 1,324 slots for more than 290TB capacity using Super DLTtape drives, and more than 3.4TB/h performance with LTO Ultrium drives.
The ATL P4000 has up to 10 tape drives and 322 cartridges, with up to 70TB capacity and one TB/h performance. The ATL P4000 can also scale by adding a second frame, either another ATL P4000 or an ATL P7000. Quantum 07 3862 4655.