Tape Storage

Does your data storage capacity outstrip your backup, disaster-recovery, and archive capability? Spectra T950 Tape Library combines field-proven reliability with storage innovation and gives you access to a full suite of enterprise storage capabilities. It delivers powerful library management, superior and proactive data integrity administration, and the outstanding total cost of ownership (TCO) for any tape solution. Once data expands beyond the limits of your initial Spectra T950 Tape Library configurations, you simply add expansion frames to keep growing. Storage can expand up to 120 drives and 10,020 Linear Tape-Open (LTO) slots (7,614 enterprise slots) in eight frames. With versatile built-in BlueScale software interface, you have intelligent command, control, and data integrity functionality at the touch of a screen. Spectra T950 Tape Library, with its compact footprint, is installed in many organizations worldwide to meet their backup, archive, and deep storage requirements.

Are your ever expanding data storage, protection and retention needs getting out of hand? Are you concerned about how secure your data will be in the event of a ransomware attack? The HPE StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library is the gold standard for mid-range tape automation, delivering best-in-class scalability, density, and performance to meet your short-term backup and disaster recovery data protection needs, as well as long-term archival requirements. Keep pace with data growth by seamlessly scaling up to seven modules—without disrupting daily data protection. Reduce TCO by reusing HPE StoreEver MSL tape drives while adding more capacity and performance as you need it. Competitively priced, the HPE StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library offers an outstanding return on your storage investment.

Does your data storage capacity outstrip your backup, disaster-recovery, and archive capability? The Spectra Cube Tape Library combines field-proven reliability with storage innovation and gives you access to a full suite of enterprise storage capabilities in a compact footprint. It delivers powerful library management, superior and proactive data integrity administration, and the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for any tape solution in its class. The Spectra Cube Tape Library starts small and expands up to 1670 slots and 30 petabytes of native capacity with LTO-9 and grows capacity and performance seamlessly without disrupting operations. The Spectra Cube Tape Library can expand up to 30 half-height (HH) or 16 full-height (FT) drives and 1670 Linear Tape-Open (LTO) slots. With the versatile built-in LumOS library management software interface, you have intelligent command, control, and data integrity functionality at the touch of a screen.

Does your data storage capacity outstrip your backup, disaster recovery, and archive capability?

The Spectra TFinity ExaScale Tape Library delivers up to 2.53 exabytes (EB) of proven storage density packaged in a small footprint and offers scalability and speed to meet the requirements of the most demanding environments. Additional flexibility is provided through support of mixed media, both Linear Tape-Open (LTO) Technology and TS11xx technology, in the same library. Customers can also access and migrate data from legacy Oracle® T10000 media to both technologies. Using LTO technology, it can expand from 50 to 56,400 slots for 2.5 EB of compressed data. Using TS1170 technology, the library can expand from 45 to 42,930 slots for 6.45 EB of compressed data. The tape library can support up to 144 drives with transfer rates of 207.4 TB/hr (466.6 TB/hr compressed) using LTO-9 or support up to 144 drives with transfer rates of 207.4 TB/hr (466.6 TB/hr compressed) using TS1170 technology.

The enormous, data-driven potential of emerging technologies such as 5G, AI, ML, and IoT is creating a plethora of opportunities for businesses to transform their operations. The challenge is that though these opportunities abound, they are truly diverse and may require very different storage optimizations. The highly scalable HPE StoreEver MSL3040 Tape Library offers enormous storage density in a cyber-resilient, scalable, and flexible form factor, which can start small but grow very big indeed, all the while costing less to run and own than other archival storage alternatives. With its modular design and ability to upgrade and reuse MSL LTO upgrade drive kits, you can cost-effectively store up to 28.8 PB of data.¹ The MSL3040 offers exceptional enterprise features and functionality. It delivers a tape storage solution that addresses long-term data management challenges, while also providing an air-gapped solution against the threat of ransomware.

The HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit provides a high-density, rack-mountable tape drive and removable disk backup system solution for both direct-attach USB or SAS backup and archiving applications, or a combination of both LTO drives and RDX docks in the same 1U rack-mount kit. Available in a generic format supporting both SAS and USB interfaces, the 1U HPE StoreEver Rack-mount Kit accommodates up to two half-height internal tape drives with a maximum capacity of 90 TB (compressed) using two HPE StoreEver LTO-9 Ultrium 45000 drives. The 1U enclosure also supports up to two internal HPE RDX docks with a maximum capacity of 8 TB per backup session when using two HPE RDX 4 TB USB removable hard disk drives.

The HPE StoreEver MSL Tape Libraries meet the demanding storage requirements of businesses needing unattended tape backup, disaster recovery, low cost long-term archive capability, or protection against cyber attacks such as ransomware. The MSL tape libraries offer a broad choice of storage capacities and technology including LTO-9, LTO-8, or LTO-7 Ultrium tape drives. Web-based remote management capabilities make the MSL tape libraries easy to manage from across the room or across the globe. Quickly manage tape media both in and out of the library with the standard barcode reader and configurable mail slots. Protect important business data from unauthorized access with several data encryption options. Quickly increase capacity and/or performance with simple drive upgrades to manage data growth or move existing MSL tape drive kits between MSL tape libraries for investment protection.

HPE StoreEver MSL Entry-level Tape Automation products help SMB customers to meet long-term data retention requirements, as well as provide air-gapped data protection from the growing threat of ransomware. The HPE StoreEver MSL 1/8 autoloader and HPE StoreEver MSL2024 tape library offer broad capacity options including LTO-9, LTO-8, or LTO-7 Ultrium drives. HPE CVTL makes the MSL 1/8 autoloader and the MSL2024 tape library easy to manage from any location, mitigating the need for remote office IT staff. Simply manage tape media in and out of the library with the standard barcode reader, configurable mail slots, and removable magazines. If a tape were lost or stolen, protect important business data from unauthorized access with data encryption. Quickly increase capacity and/or performance with tool-free drive upgrades in the MSL 1/8 autoloader or MSL2024 tape library, or move tape drive kits to the MSL3040 or MSL6480 for library scalability and additional enterprise-class features.

HPE StoreEver LTO Ultrium Tape Drives represent nine generations of linear tape open (LTO) technology capable of storing up to 45TB¹ per cartridge, with hardware data encryption, HPE StoreOpen with linear tape file system (LTFS) for ease of use at an unprecedented performance. Data hardware encryption using AES 256-bit provides easy-to-enable security to protect the most sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access of tape cartridges. LTFS is an open format for storing data on tape that makes LTO generation 5 and later tapes self-describing and file-based. Capable of data transfer rates up to 300 MB/s native, the data rate matching further helps optimize performance by matching host system speed to keep drives streaming, thus enabling a faster tape performance.