IBM has introduced tape storage and enhanced archiving, de-duplication offerings designed to help clients store and extract intelligence from massive amounts of data.
The portfolio of tape and other storage archiving products comes with seven improvements including the tape library system to provide over 2.7 exabytes of automated, low cost storage, which is enough to store approximately three times all the mobile data generated in the US in 2010, the company claimed.
The System Storage TS3500 Tape Library is enabled by a new, IBM-developed shuttle technology — a mechanical attachment that connects up to 15 tape libraries to create a single, high capacity library complex.
The System Storage TS1140 Tape Drive, holds two million times more data than IBM’s first tape drive; employs fewer and efficient components, enabling it to use up to 64% less energy and can deliver up to 80% more performance than a comparable Oracle drive.
IBM has launched file system access for its select tape libraries with the Linear Tape File System Library Edition (LTFS LE), which provides simple way to access and manage massive archives of data and digital assets.
The company said that through LTFS clients can now efficiently index, search, retrieve and share data stored on Generation 5 LTO tape, an open tape storage format.
Further, the company’s enhanced Scale-out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) system scales to over 14 petabytes of clustered storage.
SONAS also provides support for commonly used anti-virus applications, and is designed to offer protection from viruses and malware threats with the ability to scan archived data and isolate or delete compromised files.
IBM said that SONAS will now support an open standard protocol called NDMP, enabling clients to backup and protect large amounts of data in SONAS using ISV applications that support NDMP.
IBM has also improved the Information Archive for Email, Files and eDiscovery, a pre-installed, pre-configured archiving offering.
Finally, IBM has enhanced tape virtualisation offerings for mainframe or open storage environments to provide clients improved access to and protection for their data in the virtualised datacentre.
