Enterprise Storage Without Compromise
The enterprise Spectra® T950 library automates tape and SATA-based mobile RXT™ RAID VTL media in a single enclosure, and combines backup and encryption into a single step. For data backup and recovery, this elite library leads the field in cost-effective innovation—from the greatest storage density to the first true integration of VTL in an automated library. With its low cost of ownership, it’s also budget friendly for your data center.
The Spectra T950 can:
- Start with 100 tape slots and scale up to as many as 10,050 slots.
- Scale up to as many as 120 drives.
- Cascade up to eight frames with a single robotic mechanism, which increases reliability and lowers cost.
- Add SATA-based RXT media, instantly adding VTL to your backup strategy.
- Support mixed media, within a single enclosure, of any combination of LTO, SAIT, and SDLT tape technologies, and mobile RXT VTL media.
- Provide controller-based (QIP) connectivity, supporting Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet with iSCSI, or Fibre Channel Direct connect drives.
Technical Features
The Spectra T950 library’s BlueScale 10 environment is the library’s core intelligence. BlueScale technology is backed by a decade’s work in data protection with tape and disk libraries. Its intelligence provides the Spectra T950’s current innovative features, as well as its ability to support new technologies as they evolve. The BlueScale environment supports:
- Integrated BlueScale Encryption that supplies hardware-based encryption through our QIP or LTO4 hardware and total key management, with no external hardware or software
- Partitioning through Shared Library Services (SLS) without external hardware or software
- Capacity on Demand (CoD), which lets you add capacity as you need it and when you need it, simply by logging onto the Spectra Logic Web site and requesting a key that you use to enable new slots
- Hot-swap drives and controllers, redundant components, and high-density modular design
- Guaranteed on-time support, including an assisted self-maintenance (ASM) option and AutoSupport
- WORM-compatible media, with LTO, SAIT, SDLT, and RXT disk
- Support for integrated removable RXT RAID VTL
- Observatory, Remote Library Controller (RLC), and graphical touch-screen front panel to simplify library management and use
- A wide range of connectivity options through the Spectra T950 controller (QIP)
- Compatible with all major operating systems, backup software packages, and standard data center racks
- Ground-breaking BlueScale 10 technology
Encryption and Backup
The Spectra T950 library supplies a one-step encryption and backup process, BlueScale Encryption—letting you protect your data using federally-approved AES-256 encryption while backing up your data. BlueScale Encryption is the only truly integrated encryption for data stored on tape and RXT mobile disk. It lets you seamlessly and affordably add encryption to your backup strategy, with no changes to backup policies and no additional hardware or software.
Reasons to buy
- Proven Reliability
- Ease of Use
- Unmatched Storage Density
- Low Power consumption
- User Serviceability
