HLDS With Enterprise Optical Archiving Library

Hitachi-LG Storage Inc. (HLDS), a joint venture between Hitachi Ltd. and LG Electronics Inc., unveiled its Optical Archiving Library System (Model HL100).

The product, with its long-term data archiving capabilities, is targeted at the enterprise market. HLDS has been a long time in optical disk drives for the IT and PC industries, and the HL100 lives up to its heritage in terms of reliability and long-term data security.

Using enterprise Blu-ray media, the system boasts media longevity and data survivability.

The HL100 enables more sustainable digital archiving to preserve data while at the same time allowing users to scale up capacity by adding libraries.

It is eco-friendly, providing lower power consumption as well as lower CO2 emissions compared to HDD or tape-based solutions.

Collectively, these benefits make the HL100 an solution for most vertical industries and data centers.

“The HL100 is a fantastic system,” said Kenichi Takamoto, president of enterprise storage business unit,HLDS. “In this era of big data, it’s a very intelligent solution to the challenges posed by exponentially expanding unstructured digital data. The enterprise quality Blu-ray media facilitates 50 years or more of data longevity, enabling customers to secure their valuable data for the long term with higher reliability. It also increases the utilization of storage resources while scaling cold storage needs at lower costs. Overall, this is optimized archiving that can be easily implemented in a wide range of organizations. Companies in disparate fields have a myriad of different archiving needs with respect to factors like data longevity, migration costs and energy consumption. The HL100 satisfies all of these needs.”

Takamoto also commented on HLDS’ relationships with media manufacturers: “We’re committed to bringing out the best archiving systems possible, particularly with respect to long-term reliability. This is why we’ve initiated partnerships with leading media manufacturers that can help us supply cutting-edge systems. We expect these partnerships to be very productive, and the big winner in the end will be our business partners and clients.”

The Optical Archiving Library System takes advantage of Blu-ray media to preserve data for 50 years or more.

Each library has 50TB of raw capacity, and with nine libraries per rack, a single rack can hold 450TB. HL100’s power consumption of rack is 810W in idle mode.

Its ECC capabilities make it far more reliable than tape-based systems and for the enterprise market. In addition, since it is intended to facilitate long-term storage, there is less need for data migration.

The HL100 will be on sale beginning in April this year.

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