Tandberg Integrates LTO-5 Into Automation Products

Tandberg Data unveiled its family of tape autoloaders and scalable libraries based on LTO-5 technology, the latest generation of the LTO Ultrium tape format. Designed for small to medium enterprise environments, Tandberg Data’s StorageLoader and StorageLibrary Series with LTO-5 allow customers to shorten backup windows, simplify storage management and reduce costs of backup and archiving.

“LTO technology is the most economical way to protect the cascade of digital data generated daily by most businesses,” said Marije Stijnen, vice president of marketing at Tandberg Data. “When storing data on a Tandberg Data LTO-5 automation solution, customers will reap significant cost benefits over disk technology due to the higher capacity, smaller footprint and lower power and cooling requirements,” she added.

With flexible capacity, performance and configurations, the Tandberg Data LTO-5 family of automation solutions makes it easy for customers to migrate from LTO-3 or LTO-4 technologies. That’s because the Tandberg Data LTO-5 tape drive offers backward write compatibility for one generation and backward read compatibility for two generations, providing investment protection and peace of mind for customers. LTO-5 tape drives from Tandberg Data can store nearly two times more data than LTO-4 tape drives, making them ideal for automation customers.

In addition to traditional backup and archive applications, the Tandberg Data LTO automation and tape solutions enable customers in the entertainment and broadcasting arena to significantly reduce the cost of video content management. One of the world’s leading visual effects companies, The Mill, recognized significant cost savings by installing Tandberg Data LTO drives and noted that one of the compelling benefits of the total system was cost.

The Tandberg Data Automation Family
The Tandberg Data LTO-5 automation family provides the best value in tape automation solutions. The Tandberg Data StorageLoader LTO is an entry-level autoloader offering 8 slots and up to 24TB of compressed storage. The Tandberg Data StorageLibrary T24 is a compact tape library offering 24 slots and up to 72TB of compressed storage. The Tandberg Data StorageLibrary T40+ is a scalable tape library offering 24 or 40 slots and up to 120TB of compressed storage. The StorageLibrary T40+ Pass-Thru feature allows customers to add additional drives and storage capacities when required, enabling up to four StorageLibrary T40+ units to be stacked together, increasing the number of slots from 40 to 77, 114 or 151 slots. The Pass-Thru feature provides customers with an easy-to-use capacity-on-demand, allowing storage capacity to be increased up to 453TB and performance to be increased up to 16TB/hr 2 to 1 compression.

Tandberg Data LTO-5 tape media provides users with the security of WORM (write once, read many) and hardware-based 256-bit encryption. The LTO technology is also compatible with FIPS level-2 certification.

Ease of Management
Compatible with all major operating systems and backup software, the Tandberg Data LTO-5 StorageLibrary T40+ Series has a host of management and maintenance features, ensuring minimized downtime and ease of management. Redundant power supplies with load balancing and fail-over enhance the reliability of the solutions. Using the browser-based remote management interface, administrators can remotely monitor, control, configure and diagnose the libraries via the Internet from anywhere in the world. The StorageLibrary can automatically send an email notification if something is wrong with the library, and it supports SNMP – which will immediately send information on any error situation that occurs, to the host.

Pricing and Availability
Tandberg Data LTO-5 autoloaders and libraries will be available in June 2010 through Tandberg Data’s established worldwide channel of distributor and reseller partners. The manufacturer suggested retail price (MSRP) of the LTO-5 StorageLoader starts at $5,200 (4.334 euros without VAT). The MSRP for Tandberg Data LTO-5 media is $120 (99,60 euros without VAT). The Tandberg Data automation family will ship with a 3-year warranty, including a first-year advance replacement, with additional service uplifts available.