Anaheim, California-based ATL products Ltd is to launch its first products today, since it was acquired by Quantum Corp in May (CI No 3,414). The Digital Linear Tape library specialist will pitch its P3000 Series Automated DLT library at the high end enterprise market and the PowerStor L500 Series Automated DLT library at the small to mid-sized market. Both of the libraries have been designed to be easily installed, and to provide users with the minimum of administration. The P3000 is ATL’s highest ever performance and largest ever capacity tape library, and has up to 16 drives for 288Gb per hour performance and up to 332 tape cartridges, for 11.6Tb of storage capacity. The P3000 can be remotely accessed and managed via optionally available software called WebAdmin, which uses a Java-enabled browser. ATL is particularly keen to emphasis the P3000’s robotics cartridge handling system, IntelliGrip that grasps and swaps a DLT cartridge, selecting it from the top and bottom of the stack, as opposed to the sides. The L500 library is targeted at mid-sized Unix and NT local area networks and has up to 14 DLT 35Gb tape cartridges for 490Gb of storage. WebAdmin is also available for the L500. Both tape libraries will be available through ATL resellers. Quantum, the world’s biggest tape drive supplier paid $300m in stock swap transaction for ATL in May, and now operates as a division of Quantum.
