![]() ![]() Grainger identified the other likely markets as general IT standard backup, and tape consolidation. It is also well-suited for video surveillance, which has not quite arrived yet at object storage and is still very tape heavy.” “It is absolutely perfect for production houses and post-production houses, and fits in well with BlackPearl object storage. “One is our traditional verticals – media and entertainment,” Grainger said. Spectra Logic sees three principal markets for Spectra Stack, all of which they sell into extensively today. “The biggest issues people have tend to be with drives and media, so we have very extensive media lifecycle management which will preview both and notify the customer of impending failure before any issues develop,” Grainger said.Īn optional BlueVision camera can also be mounted to the top of the library to provide a real-time and remote visual assessment of the robot. It includes a colour touchscreen, remote web interface, the ability to create up to 20 Shared Library Services partitions, built-in diagnostics, encryption, and encryption key management. The Spectra Stack library uses BlueVision software, which is similar to their enterprise BlueScale software. This is one of the biggest things that the market will gravitate to, because it saves a lot of money when moving from another vendor.” “Our MigrationPass feature lets customers take tape drives in an existing tape library and move them into Spectra Stack,” Grainger said, “You can go all the way back to LTO 5, and with some drive manufacturers, to LTO 3. It also supports multiple generations of LTO tape drives and LTO media. It supports both full-height and half-height tape drives, and allows the customer to mix and match as they see fit. The Spectra Stack is designed for a 100 per cent, 7×24 duty cycle. It’s also easy for them to install, with wizards for configuration, if they do it themselves instead of using our white glove service.” “Customers can replace drives very easily. “It is a very simple, scalable secure library, which starts at a very low price point, working on a pay-as-you go type mode, for as low as 1 cent a GB,” Grainger said. The Spectra Stack Tape Library has a modular design, where users can start with a single LTO tape drive and 10 LTO tapes in a 6U module, and expand the library – module by module – up to 42 LTO tape drives and 560 LTO tapes per rack. I would expect that a year from now, the entry point for tape will go from 100 TB to 500 TB.” The difference going forward will be that the area where cloud is competitive on price will continue to rise. So tape will continue to be key for second and third copies. It can be very expensive if your primary is destroyed in some kind of a disaster, and you need to restore it all from the cloud. Putting data in the cloud is easy and cheap, but it’s still expensive to get it back, and the bandwidth is an issue. ![]() “However, as you scale up, it has less value. “Cloud is a good archiving solution if you have less than 100 TB or less of data,” Grainger said. Grainger noted that the long-term decline of tape has been arrested in the last two years, as the market has rebounded – benefitting from the rising tide of the massive amounts of data to be stored lifting all boats. “It’s not dead, but the role of tape continues to change.” “I’ve been in the tape business for 20 years, and every year we have competitors saying that tape is dead,” said Brian Grainger, Spectra Logic’s CSO. Tape automation is still important to their business, however. Spectra is often seen as a pure tape player, and that was the heart of their business for years, but within the last five years they expanded into other markets with their Verde solution, in the NAS storage space, and object storage, with their Black Pearl Converged Storage System. Both are aimed at different segments of the value conscious market. ![]() ![]() Today, tier-two storage vendor Spectra Logic is announcing two new additions to their tape family – the Spectra Stack modular tape library, and the Spectra T950v Tape Library, a less expensive, entry-level version of the high-end Spectra T950 Tape Library. ![]()
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