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- International Television Service Relies on Neo Series Tape Library for Storage, Backup and Disaster Recovery
- The British Forces Broadcasting Service BFBS went on air at the end of 1943. Since then, its two networks have broadcast from 20 countries and 67 radio stations to a total of 200 million listeners around the world. As a 24-hour-a-day service, BFBS has a highly fault-redundant system. Disaster recovery...
- Tags: Tape Library, Overland Storage Inc., Television Service, Disaster Recovery, Backups, TVs, Storage, Tv & Home Theater, Servers, Data Management, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Hardware
- Case studies
- City of Winterthur Gains Backup Speed and 100% Data Safety With NetApp Virtual Tape Library Solution
- Located in the canton of Zurich, Winterthur is the sixth largest city in Switzerland. The city's administrative staff provides information technology services to more than 3,500 users. The City of Winterthur IDW wanted to streamline and improve backup services to accommodate 30% annual data growth and ensure 100% data protection....
- Tags: City, Network Appliance Inc., Tape Library, NetApp, Backups, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Bocada Case Study: Reader's Digest
- The Headquarter Data Center is the prime data repository and application host for all of Reader's Digest's global businesses. Global Network Services GNS within Reader's Digest IT is tasked with providing all services for the Intel platform globally, including workstations, servers, network, storage, backup, and specialized application support. With less...
- Tags: Environment, Tape Library, Bocada Inc., Headquarter Data Center, Backups, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Top Legal Firm in Hong Kong Opted for StorageTek L40 Tape Library and LTO Drives to Back Up Its NAS Architecture
- Sidley Austin Brown & Wood ("SABW" or "the firm"), a significant legal power in the international arena, was formed as a result of the merger of Sidley & Austin and Brown & Wood in May 2001. As e-mail has become the firm's core communication tool in recent years, e-mail data...
- Tags: NAS, Data Storage, Network, Tape Library, StorageTek, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Storage, E-mail, Storage Management, Hardware, Online Communications
- Case studies
- StorageTek SANs Keep the Sanger Institute at the Forefront of Genome Research
- DNA sequencing produces a massive amount of data. Every day about 100,000 sequence reactions are run at the Sanger Institute, generating approximately 50 million bases of raw sequence data. The Sanger Institute was finding it harder to manage its rapidly increasing data volumes, and also needed a larger tape library...
- Tags: Genome, Tape Library, SAN, StorageTek, Backups, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- Premier Farnell Implements StorageTek Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Solution to Slash Backup Times by Up to 80 Percent and Comply With Disaster Recovery Regulations
- With an eye toward continuing growth in data and new regulatory requirements, Premier Farnell, a global distributor of electronic components and industrial products, determined it needed to upgrade its existing headquarters storage infrastructure. Balancing data access and retrieval needs with performance and cost, Premier Farnell selected StorageTek's L700e tape library...
- Tags: Tape Library, Regulation, StorageTek, Disaster Recovery, Backups, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- Case studies
- OCLC Online Computer Library Center Consolidates Data and Reduces Costs With a StreamLine SL8500 Modular Library System
- Libraries around the world use the Ohio-based OCLC Online Computer Library Center to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library materials. OCLC's IT forecasts indicated the company was facing significant growth in its tape storage environment. This environment was built around 10 PowderHorn 9310 tape libraries from StorageTek. It had...
- Tags: Environment, Tape Library, Streamline, StorageTek, Computer, OCLC, Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- Leading German University Graduates to NetApp Virtual Tape Libraries, Completely Eliminates Tape Backups
- Founded in 1829, the University of Stuttgart is one of the leading technical universities in Germany, offering a comprehensive range of subjects with a focus on technical disciplines. The university wanted to shorten the backup window. The challenge was to improve speed and reliability of restores and reduce the total...
- Tags: Tape Library, Tape Backup, NetApp, Storage, Backups, Hardware
- Case studies
- Sun and Brocade: The Green Combination for Your Datacenter
- This paper reviews the energy consumption of tape libraries and Director-class Fibre Channel switches that make up an enterprise Tape SAN. The combination of the Sun StorageTek SL8500 Tape Library and the Brocade 48000 Director can reduce the carbon footprint and energy costs over competitive offerings. They are ideal for...
- Tags: Data Center, Tape Library, Sun Microsystems Inc., Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Data Centers, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2007-07-01
- Tape Consolidation With the Sun Storagetek L1400 Tape Library - Achieving Midrange Storage Efficiencies: An Overview and Comparison With the Quantum Scalar i2000
- This paper introduces general tape consolidation concepts and describes the Sun StorageTek L1400 tape library features that support consolidation. Consolidation benefits fall into three key areas: improved IT productivity, the ability to respond quickly to changing business priorities, and lowered TCO through increased asset utilization. In support of these areas,...
- Tags: Consolidation, Tape Library, Sun Microsystems Inc., StorageTek, Quantum Corp., Backups, Roi/Tco, Storage Management, Storage, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
- White papers 2007-09-01
- Choosing a Virtual Tape Library
- As enterprises shift their backup and data protection strategy from tape to disk, IT operations professionals can choose from continuous data protection, rotating point-in-time snapshots, and backup to a disk target solutions. Most enterprises want to introduce disk in order to meet backup windows and improve restore capabilities, but they...
- Tags: Disk, Tape Library, Backups, Disaster Recovery, Data Management
- White papers 2006-12-15
- Accelerating Backup/Restore With Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library: Selecting an Optimized, Secure Configuration to Fit Your Environment
- Virtual Tape Libraries have many benefits to an organization. From the ability to emulate more tape drives than a physical tape library, to allowing multiple backup streams to run simultaneously, thus enabling organizations to easily complete their backups within their allotted window. The choice to implement a virtual tape library...
- Tags: Environment, Tape Library, Sun Microsystems Inc., StorageTek, Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2007-02-01
- HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Tape Library: Value and Simplicity
- This entry-level package library provides an incredible amount of backup/recovery storage without consuming valuable rack space. Plus, there is integrated web-based remote management.
- Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP StorageWorks, Tape Library, Backups, Storage, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware
- Webcasts 2007-01-01
- HP OpenView Storage Data Protector Advanced Backup to Disk Integration With Virtual Tape Libraries White Paper
- This white paper provides a better understanding of the integration of HP OpenView Storage Data Protector with Virtual Tape Libraries by utilizing the Advanced Backup to Disk functionality available with the Storage Data Protector software. After reading this paper, one should be able to determine the difference between a Storage...
- Tags: Disk, Hewlett-Packard Co., Tape Library, Backup, HP OpenView, Integration, Storage, It Management, Hardware, It service Management
- White papers 2006-11-01
- TLFS: High Performance Tape Library File System for Data Backup and Archive
- A tape library is seldom considered as a viable place for constructing a file system for a sequential write/read device. Storage virtualization technology has become a buzzword in technology circles lately; this paper proposes a Tape Library File System, called TLFS. The purpose of TLFS is to maintain a consistent...
- Tags: Tape Library, File System, Data Backup, High-performance, Storage Virtualization Technology, Backups, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware
- White papers 2006-04-17
- Archive Storage Technologies Supporting Information Lifecycle Management
- A large amount of fixed content has been generated due to the ongoing development of the broadband Internet and digital information technology. Consequently, there is a growing need for a special archive storage system that efficiently preserves and manages a large amount of content at low cost. Fujitsu has taken...
- Tags: Tape Library, Fujitsu Ltd., Information Lifecycle Management, Disk Array, Backups, Storage, Information Lifecycle Management (ILM), Storage Management, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Enterprise Management Associates White Paper: Reduce Operating Expenses with SRM
- Thanks to vendor support of the SMI-S standard, backup and tape libraries are finally becoming part of the managed storage environment, taking their place alongside disk and fabric resources. The results? More reliable backup and reduced operating expenses. In this white paper from Enterprise Management Associates, find out how you...
- Tags: Enterprise Management Associates Inc., Tape Library, Quantum Corp., Backups, Storage Management, Storage, Hardware
- White papers 2005-10-05
- FNO Improves Patient Care With a PACS Solution From Agfa and IBM
- Fakultni Nemocnice Olomouc FNO is one of the leading teaching hospitals in the Czech Republic. Fakultni Nemocnice Olomouc needed to move entirely to a digital system for storing, managing and distributing medical images; build a robust, scalable infrastructure capable of managing images for many years. FNO selected and implemented an...
- Tags: Storage management, Utility computing, HEALTHCARE, Agfa-Gavaert Group, IBM TotalStorage, IBM Corp., pacs, tape library, image, server
- Case studies 2006-10-20
- Free White Paper by the Clipper Group: The ADIC i2000 -- More Than Just Another Tape Library
- This white paper from The Clipper Group addresses the challenges of backup in today's data center, caused by unpredictable data growth, increasing complexity, budget constraints, and headcount limitations. Find out how this intelligent enterprise library integrates management software, advanced diagnostics, library resources, and I/O management features to tackle...
- Tags: Tape Library, Quantum Corp., Advanced Digital Information Corp., Data Centers, Backups, Storage, Storage Management, Hardware, Data Management
- White papers 2005-04-14
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