In brief: ADIC, Sun announce tape automation products

ADIC and Sun last week separately announced tape automation products. ADIC launched the Scalar i500, a midrange tape library that scales to 18 limited-tape open drives and 404 tapes for a total capacity of more than 323T bytes. The i500 has support for the Storage Management Interface Specification, which the company says makes the back-up system easier to manage. It uses a single-tape robot across all modules to ease scalability. The Scalar i500 comes in 5U, 14U and 23U versions, which can be rack-mounted or free-standing. They support from one to 18 drives and between 36 and 505 tapes. The i500 is expected to be available this month; pricing information is not yet available. Sun announced the T10000 Enterprise Tape Drive, which has a throughput rate of 120M bytes per second and a capacity of 500G bytes uncompressed or 1T byte of compressed data on a single cartridge. It has Fibre Channel and FICON connectivity. The T10000 offers encryption at the drive level, ensuring data protection. It is expected to be available this month starting at $37,000 for the Fibre Channel model and $44,000 for the FICON model.

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ADIC and Sun last week separately announced tape automation products. ADIC launched the Scalar i500, a midrange tape library that scales to 18 limited-tape open drives and 404 tapes for a total capacity of more than 323T bytes. The i500 has support for the Storage Management Interface Specification, which the company says makes the back-up system easier to manage. It uses a single-tape robot across all modules to ease scalability. The Scalar i500 comes in 5U, 14U and 23U versions, which can be rack-mounted or free-standing. They support from one to 18 drives and between 36 and 505 tapes. The i500 is expected to be available this month; pricing information is not yet available. Sun announced the T10000 Enterprise Tape Drive, which has a throughput rate of 120M bytes per second and a capacity of 500G bytes uncompressed or 1T byte of compressed data on a single cartridge. It has Fibre Channel and FICON connectivity. The T10000 offers encryption at the drive level, ensuring data protection. It is expected to be available this month starting at $37,000 for the Fibre Channel model and $44,000 for the FICON model.

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