Evaluating Tape Libraries For Storage Consolidation

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Given the overwhelming advantages of storage consolidation, IT departments are planning the inevitable move toward centralizing and simplifying data storage. The key to consolidation is good planning: identify an organization's storage requirements for disk-based storage and the perfect library for tape storage. Selecting the right automated tape library requires careful evaluation. The library needs to:

• handle current heterogeneous computing environments
• handle multiple storage environments (NAS, SAN, iSCSI)
• scale as data grows
• provide built-in adaptive intelligence that monitors the library proactively
• supply an architecture that supports new technologies as they are developed

If possible, the library and software must reduce time-consuming backup-related tasks, be easy to use and maintain, and still provide low up-front costs and low overall total cost of ownership (TCO).

The Spectra T950 library with Python architecture provides sophisticated automation features coupled with an ease of use that supplies a ready path to data storage consolidation of tape backup. It also provides a feature that increases storage density and decreases labor costs by means of a brilliant and unexpected innovation: grouped media.

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