Spectra T50 Library

Ideal Solution for Small- to Mid-sized Businesses

The Spectra T50 library is ideal for small- to mid-sized businesses looking for an easy-to-use automated tape backup solution. The Spectra T50 library provides advantages you've grown accustomed to with Xiotech products, including:

• Resilient and easy to use
• Proven data protection and remote data recovery reducing the risk of downtime and data loss
• Scalable storage that grows along with your data - a true pay-as-you-grow solution

Manage and Use Easily
Like the Xiotech family of products, the Spectra T-Series libraries are easy to use and manage. Spectra libraries provide graphical touch-screen interfaces and remote Web access to the library, which let IT staff easily plan and execute backup to tape from anywhere. With the T-Series ease of use and management, less staff-time is involved, lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).

Data is Secure
Backup to tape, using Spectra T-Series libraries, adds a layer of portable data protection and remote data recovery, so your data can be stored off-line and off-site. The T-Series also provides built-in secure access, the option for LTO-WORM (Write Once Read Many), and redundancy - all providing the best tape storage available.

Pay as You Grow
Get a library to suit your current backup requirements, and if you need greater capacity or performance, simply add as needed, not before. This lowers your initial capital investment, with the assurance that your library can grow to keep up with your data.

The T50: Setting the New Standard for Small Tape Libraries
The Spectra T50 brings the highest end features to an affordable library that fits organizations of every size-large organizations with smaller remote offices and departments, and small to medium organizations, too. The T50 stores up to 40 TB of data in only 7 inches using industry-leading LTO tape technology. The T50 works with every major backup software package and operating system, so that it easily and seamlessly integrates into any data backup environment.

Spectra T50 Library Snapshot

• Tabletop or rack-mountable, only 4U (7 inches) tall
• Can be configured with 10 to 50 slots
• Available with up to two LTO-3 full-height drives or up to four LTO-2 half-height drives
• Direct-connect with Fibre Channel or SCSI
• Easily add slots in increments of five, from ten slots up to fifty
• Remote library access with a Web login application, and options for multiple management tools
• Compatible with all major backup applications and every major operating system
• A wide array of additional features available through the library's BlueScale software environment

The Spectra T50 library provides a compelling alternative to all other entry-level libraries by affordably offering high-end features previously available only in high-end libraries. These features drive down the total cost of ownership.

The Spectra T50 library takes advantage of the BlueScale software environment common across the T-Series library family, bringing a wide range of features, flexible scalability, and high reliability to organizations of every size, including small and mid-sized businesses, departments, and groups.

Lower Costs through Features that Reduce Complexity

• A graphical touch-screen front panel and remote Web log-in to easily use and manage the library from anywhere in the organization and anywhere in the world
• The AutoSupport option lets library users create e-mail messages directly from the library that can be sent to centralized product support. These e-mail messages automatically provide library information, such as log files, that describe possible issues or problems, so support can solve problems faster
• With the Assisted Self-Maintenance option you can store a kit of easily changed components on-site, making it easy to quickly swap components if necessary
• The Spectra T50 library is an easy fit into any backup environment through its compatibility with all major operating systems and backup software applications, along with the choice of either direct-connect Fibre Channel or direct-connect LVD SCSI

The Spectra T50 library sets a new standard with cost-saving features never available before for small to mid-sized organizations. The Spectra T50 library supplies a wide range of benefits, including these:

Easily Install and Configure the Spectra T50 Library

Easily Use and Manage the Spectra T50 Library

Managing and maintaining your library is easy thanks to the library's built-in support features that include AutoSupport and an Assisted Self Maintenance (ASM) option. With AutoSupport, the library can e-mail product support a message that automatically supplies information about an issue. The ASM option lets you use parts stored at your site to quickly swap components.

Lower Overhead Costs
The Spectra T50 library's compact, highly dense construction preserves expensive data center space while lowering power usage and cooling costs.

Spend Less Time on Upgrades
Upgrading is easy. Simply visit the Spectra Logic Web site, where you'll get everything you need to upgrade capacity. You can also improve performance by adding tape drives. These features make it easy to handle rapid data growth.

Spend Less Time Handling Tapes
Grouped media using TeraPack technology saves you time because you handle tapes in groups. Tapes are imported and exported in bar-coded packs to minimize the need to handle individual tapes. Using storage TeraPack containers, you can easily stack tapes on-site and off-site in storage facilities.