In context: Whereas shoppers are largely coping with SSDs and HDDs for his or her storage wants nowadays, tape-based options are nonetheless the way in which to go for archiving the large quantities of knowledge that cloud and web corporations should recurrently handle and compute upon.
Colorado-based firm Spectra Logic lately launched the newest product in its line of tape libraries for really hardcore storage enterprise wants. Spectra Dice is the primary library particularly designed for cloud environments, the backup firm stated, offering straightforward deployment and administration alternatives with a outstanding general storage capability and full assist for the newest tape expertise requirements.
Spectra Dice is appropriate with a number of iterations of the Linear Tape-Open (LTO) format, from LTO-6 to LTO-9. LTO is a magnetic tape expertise for information storage initially developed within the Nineties as an open commonplace various to proprietary tape codecs, with built-in encryption and a devoted file system (LTFS) that permits entry to recordsdata saved on tape as in the event that they have been on disks or detachable Flash drives.
The brand new library can supply as much as 30 petabytes of native storage capability, which may go as much as 75 petabytes (or 75,000 terabytes) when compression is used. Information throughput is 32 TB per hour, and the library may even adapt to future generations of the LTO format after they turn out to be out there. Spectra Dice consists of the corporate’s personal library administration software program (LumOS), which may seemingly present an intuitive and “feature-rich” interface to watch all that information from distant places.
The corporate stated Spectra Dice could be deployed shortly, could be dynamically scaled to satisfy a shopper’s particular wants, and does not want specialised instruments when servicing is required. Tape slots could be dynamically added with no downtime or service calls, whereas trendy backup options and asset managers are absolutely supported. Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier API assist is there as nicely.
Matt Ninesling, Spectra’s senior director of tape portfolio administration, highlighted how public cloud storage prices are escalating at an accelerated tempo. Enterprise gamers are expressing a rising curiosity in various options, like shifting their information to extra economical places together with on-premise cloud and hybrid cloud platforms.
Ninesling supplied some outstanding cost-cutting prospects, as Spectra Dice libraries are seemingly ok to cut back prices for chilly storage by “half or extra.” Moreover, the brand new tape library may even supply higher information management and safety from at this time’s most harmful safety threats like ransomware. Spectra did not present any particular details about Spectra Dice’s worth, a telltale signal of the truth that this isn’t a storage product for conventional shoppers.