Haven't listened to CC yet. Will try to do so tonight, report later. Have reentered, average cost about $2.40, FWIW. Not that much cash, but lots of stock. In the meantime, article below looks interesting. Especially the restore time, which has always been one of the raps against tape--"The offering is being launched at Storage Networking World (SNW) today, in Orlando, Fla., with a benchmark demonstration of 2.6 terabytes per hour archival backup and 2.2 terabytes per hour restore."
Sam
Quantum Joins Storage Industry Leaders in BrightStor Offering At Storage Networking World Oct. 27-30
Tuesday October 29, 11:30 am ET
Offering Kicks Off With Technology Demonstration Benchmark Of Industry's Fastest Backup and Restore Rates
MILPITAS, Calif., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp. (NYSE: DSS - News), a leading provider of data protection systems, today announced it is joining Brocade, Computer Associates, Emulex, Hitachi Data Systems and Microsoft to support the BrightStor Offering, created to deliver a set of balanced, integrated and fully qualified storage solutions and services for enhanced deployments of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Editions. A marketing program, seminar series and field activities at the local level will support the offering.
The offering is being launched at Storage Networking World (SNW) today, in Orlando, Fla., with a benchmark demonstration of 2.6 terabytes per hour archival backup and 2.2 terabytes per hour restore -- the fastest backup and restore rates recorded in the industry. Quantum is the first and only tape library vendor to achieve this significant industry benchmark.
"Quantum has long been committed to working with other leading storage vendors to develop best-in-class solutions that provide customers with greater manageability, flexibility and performance," said Robert Pickell, vice president worldwide marketing for Quantum's Storage Solutions Group. "The BrightStor Offering brings together industry leaders to provide an open set of integrated, interoperable storage solutions for Microsoft enterprise applications."
The BrightStor Offering delivers storage solutions to customers that
include:
An assessment of needs in the existing environment
Configuration extension recommendations, including hardware of
participating partners
Implementation services
Best practices operational procedures and tools focused on availability
and reliability
"The record-setting performance benchmarks achieved by the BrightStor Offering is more than just an impressive technical exercise. They are essential for customers who have to reliably back up and restore greater volumes of data than ever without overwhelming their other business-critical network applications and services," said Nigel Turner, CA senior vice president for BrightStor solutions. "We look forward to continuing to work closely with Quantum so that our customers can make the most effective use of their enterprise tape libraries as part of their overall storage and data protection strategies."
The demonstration at SNW encompasses state-of-the-art storage technologies combined with industry-leading software and server products including:
Brocade Switches
CA BrightStor Enterprise Backup software
Emulex Host Bus Adapters
Hitachi Data Systems RAID
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition on a Microsoft Windows 2000
Datacenter Server
Quantum ATL P7000 Enterprise Tape Libraries
Quantum's ATL P7000 Library
Quantum's ATL P7000 Enterprise Tape Library continues to define the standard in data tape automation. The ATL P7000 revolutionizes how IT professionals solve their requirements for high performance and capacity, while delivering the lowest cost of ownership in the industry. The ATL P7000 exceeds the competition in capacity, density, reliability, flexibility, and return on investment. Hot-swappable drives, power supplies, and fans; redundant AC controllers, and no required preventative maintenance, allow users to spend their time running operations instead of maintaining them. |
