NAB Show: Symply Expands Disk, Tape and Cloud Products Offering for M&E

At NAB Show 2024, Symply, developer of digital storage and archive solutions, announced the expansion of their disk, tape and cloud product portfolio.

It is announcing SymplyPRO XTL tape libraries, ultra-compact SymplySPARK and SPARK XT 4-bay desktop transportable RAIDs, and a single-server scalable object storage appliance, SymplyAURA.

SymplyPRO XTL 24 front and rear

SymplyPRO XTL Tape Library solutions have been engineered to suit all requirements from small compact entry level libraries to enterprise-class modular tape libraries. Equipped with a choice of interfaces including SAS, FC, and uniquely Ethernet, and Thunderbolt 3, SymplyPRO XTL Tape Libraries are designed to integrate into customers’ infrastructure.

SymplyPRO XTL 40 front and rear

Built on field-proven technology trusted by some of the world’s largest organizations, SymplyPRO XTL Tape Libraries offer support for the latest LTO generations, including LTO-7, LTO-8, and LTO-9 with configurations available from compact 8-slot to enterprise-class 80-slot models. Modular 40- and 80-slot libraries simplify the process of expanding storage capacity and adding LTO drives as needs evolve. All SymplyPRO XTL Tape Libraries come backed by a 3-year warranty.

SymplyPRO XTL 80 front and rear

SymplySPARK 4-bay desktop transportable RAID

SymplySPARK 4-bay desktop transportable RAID is built on the SymplySPARK 8-bay Thunderbolt 3 RAID. The new 4-bay model is more compact and transportable, whilst remaining rugged and whisper quiet. Smaller than its peers, SPARK 4-bay models incorporate a robust carry handle for easy handling while featuring full user serviceability of HDDs, the fan and power supply.

The SPARK XT is also available in the new 4-bay form-factor, incorporating the Seagate MACH.2 18TB multi-actuator HDDs and providing performance that would normally be associated with competitive 8-bay products. This unparalleled throughput is truly game changing, reducing the need to trade off capacity and increased costs for SSD solutions, enabling users to be more productive by increasing the speed at which content can be backed up from camera cards on set. The SymplySPARK and SPARK XT 4-bay models come with a 5-year warranty.

SymplyAURA 2U single-server appliance

SymplyAURA represents a breakthrough in data management and protection, offering a single-server appliance solution designed to meet the evolving needs of modern enterprises.

AURA empowers customers to swiftly deploy a ‘plug & play’ S3 object storage repository, catering to both active archive and backup requirements with efficiency and security. Built on 16th-gen software and deployed and orchestrated on integrated Kubernetes, AURA ensures reliability and performance. Unlike other appliance offerings in the market that are purposely limited in their scalability, it can start with a single appliance and customers can scale capacity via the addition of appliances as required, with no software or hardware-imposed limitations.

“We’re excited to expand our Disk, Tape and Cloud portfolio in line with our customers’ needs” said Keith Warburton, CEO. “Customers were having to look elsewhere for certain solutions and weren’t receiving the quality of product and level of support they had been accustomed to with Symply. Our new SymplyPRO XTL Tape Libraries with their native connectivity options, alongside 4-bay SPARK models and AURA object storage for private cloud deployments, show we are always listening to our customers.”

The company will showing SymplyPRO XTL Tape Libraries, SymplySPARK, and SymplyAURA alongside their existing disk, tape and cloud portfolio at NAB Show 2024, April 13-17 in  Las Vegas, NV.