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| STORServer Announces New Line of K6000 Storage Appliances STORServer has announced its new line of STORServer K6000 Backup Appliances featuring the full line-up of Qualstar XLS libraries. The new models provide unparalleled backup, archiving and disaster recovery to mid-to large enterprises and smartly combine both disk to disk and disk to disk to tape. With up to 10TB of disk, hundreds of simultaneous backups from virtually all operating system platforms are possible. Suited for the diverse needs of growing companies, the new STORServer K6000 Backup Appliances are based on the highly modular Qualstar XLS family of Linear Tape-Open tape libraries and feature capacities from 300 linear tape slots up to 6, 085 slots in its largest configuration, providing unparalleled capacity. The new K6000 models use IBM x3800 or x3850 series servers and either internal Serial Attached SCSI or external Serial Advanced Technology Attachment storage shelves, all racked inside Qualstar XLS' 8U internal rack space, providing the suitable platform for the most demanding of backup, archive and DR environments. Hundreds of synchronized backups are possible with the new K6000 appliances, which can contain up to 10TB of disk. Using IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Enterprise Edition and its Progressive Backup Methodology, the new K6000 provides the marriage of D2D and D2D2T backup solutions. Users can tailor the solution to meet the diverse needs of the medium to large enterprise. By staging backups to disk initially, STORServer decouples tape drives from backup streams without the need for expensive and complicated Virtual Tape Library technology. With 10TB of cache pool, several days of backup data are stored on disk and are available for very rapid restore. Data is migrated to tape and Disaster Recovery copies are made automatically using the appliance's built in software called STORServer Manager. This technology reduces the amount of time required of a system administrator to minutes per day. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |