Spectra T950 Library

Ideal Solution for Enterprise Businesses

The Spectra T950 library is ideal for enterprise organizations looking for an easy-to-use automated tape backup solution with tremendous capacity, flexibility, and performance. The Spectra T950 library provides advantages you've grown accustomed to with Xiotech products, including:

• Resilient and easy to use
• Proven data protection, reducing 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, 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.

Enterprise Class Features without Compromise
The Spectra T950 library starts with one frame and can cascade up to five frames. The library handles multiple types of media within one or more frames, including LTO, SDLT, and SAIT, supporting compliance-mandated Write-Once Read-Many (WORM) tape. The library offers the widest range of features, all designed to make the library easy to use, manage, and maintain. The library's modular design supports multiple redundant components to ensure resiliency, and that are easily replaceable in minutes, not hours. The Spectra T950 library works with every major backup software package and operating system, so that it easily and seamlessly integrates into any data backup environment. It also supports Fibre Channel and Ethernet/iSCSI connectivity.

Spectra T950 Library Snapshot

• Minimum configuration has as few as 100 tape slots and two drives
• Cascades up to five frames with single robotic mechanism, increasing reliability and lowering cost
• Scale up to as many as 6150 slots in five frames, depending on the number of drives
• Scale up to as many as 120 drives in five frames, depending on the number of slots
• LTO, SAIT, and SDLT mixed media in a single frame, with the Write Once Read Many (WORM) option
• Controller-based connectivity (QIP) that supports Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet with iSCSI
• Hot swap components, including drives and controllers
• A wide array of additional features , thanks to the T950's BlueScale software environment

The Spectra T950 library provides superior features that drive down the total cost of ownership (TCO), while supporting a common feature set and graphical interface across all T-Series libraries, including the entry-level Spectra T50 library and the mid-sized Spectra T120 libraries.

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
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• he 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 T950 easily fits into any backup environment through compatibility with all major operating systems and backup software applications, and support for both Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet/iSCSI

The Spectra T950 provides superior features and benefits, including these:

Easily Configure the Spectra T950 Library
It takes less than half an hour to configure the Spectra T950 library. With a clear and intuitive process built in to the library's graphical interface. The simplicity comes not only from its ease of use, but from the fact that the Spectra T950 library is compatible with all major operating systems and backup software packages, and that it provides a choice of connectivity options, supporting Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet/iSCSI.

Easily Use and Manage the Spectra T950 Library
Using the library is easy, with the Spectra T950 library's intuitive color touch screen interface. This same interface is displayed remotely by the Remote Library Controller (RLC), which displays through any Web browser. This gives you the freedom to manage your Spectra T950 library from anywhere-your office, a different building, or a different country. Optionally, the Observatory management tool can help you manage multiple Spectra Logic libraries through a single screen.

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 T950 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 an activation key. Type that key in to your library and you can instantly add slots. 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, rather than one-by-one. Tapes are imported and exported in bar-coded packs to minimize the need to handle individual tapes. These same TeraPack containers have clear dust covers, so you can quickly review the pack's contents and easily store and stack tapes in on-site or off-site storage facilities.