Spectra Logic Achieves Veeam Ready Status for Tape Solutions and NAS

Spectra Logic Corporation announced that its entire family of tape libraries and its Spectra BlackPearl NAS solution have attained Veeam Ready qualification with Veeam Backup & Replication v11.

As a long-time Veeam Technology Alliance Partner, it continues to attain Veeam Ready status for its portfolio of tape libraries and disk solutions to ensure compatibility with Veeam as customers look for economical and scalable storage targets in Veeam environments.

“We are delighted to continue our long-standing partnership with Veeam,” said Betsy Doughty, Spectra Logic VP of corporate marketing. “Our mutual customers reap tremendous value when they combine our solutions. With our entire family of tape libraries qualified Veeam Ready – Tape and our BlackPearl NAS qualified Veeam Ready – Repository, customers can take full advantage of Spectra’s tape and NAS storage offerings as well as the 200 new enhancements in Veeam’s latest solution.“

The Ready Program helps Veeam partners meet their functional and performance standards. Every Spectra tape library and BlackPearl NAS solution has achieved Ready status with V11, indicating the most current level of qualification, testing and compatibility for these storage products.

Spectra Logic’s family of tape and NAS solutions deliver benefits when paired with Backup & Replication:

• The tape library family provides a combination of capacity, performance, scalability, reliability, support and affordability for long-term data protection, security and archive.
• With features such as integrated encryption and key management as well as media lifecycle management and local and remote management, the tape libraries offer Veeam customers the ability to backup, archive, perform DR, and mitigate ransomware attacks.
• Scaling from terabytes to exabytes, the tape libraries integrate with most channel interfaces and networking protocols. 
• BlackPearl NAS integrates with Veeam with no additional configuration needed, delivering high-capacity storage that is self-protecting, flexible and affordable. The combination of BlackPearl NAS and Veeam offers fast backups, built-in de-dupe, improved performance and a single interface to ensure ease of operation in a Veeam environment.