Continuing to drive new innovation into tape storage, Oracle today announced the StorageTek T10000D tape drive, the industry’s fastest, highest capacity tape drive, providing a breakthrough opportunity for cloud service providers to monetize faster than any other storage media.
With 54% more capacity per cartridge over the previous generation, up to 8,5Tb native, the StorageTek T10000D tape drive can help customers reduce acquisition costs for data centre backup by 35%.
The StorageTek T10000D tape drive stores and retrieves data at record speed, up to 252 MB/sec native, enabling customers to meet backup recovery time objectives and archive SLAs with fewer tape drives. The StorageTek T10000D can achieve data rates 57% faster than LTO-6.
It is also the first tape drive with support for both 16 Gbps Fibre Channel and 10 Gb/s Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), ideal for next generation converged data centres.
The new capabilities broaden the appeal of tape storage in markets with large file assets, including media and entertainment, oil and gas, healthcare imaging, and cloud services. Cloud service providers can monetize tape faster than disk media due to its longevity, durability and lower cost.
In media and entertainment, customers can store five hours of 4K digital content on a single tape cartridge and over 16-million hours of 4K content in a single Oracle StorageTek SL8500 tape library complex.
Additionally, with Oracle’s Linear Tape File System (LTFS), customers can drag-and-drop multiple LTO LTFS enabled volumes onto a single StorageTek T10000D cartridge for large data consolidation projects.
Both new digital archiving solutions are featured this week at the IBC2013 conference in Amsterdam in the Oracle exhibit, Hall 9, Exhibit 9.D15.
The StorageTek T10000D tape drive’s Data Integrity Validation (DIV) feature allows validation without requiring transfer of the data back to the application, enabling customers to schedule more frequent, less resource-intensive data integrity checks over the lifetime of their data.
Fully supported by StorageTek Tape Analytics health monitoring and reporting software, customers can further enhance long term digital data resiliency.The StorageTek T10000D tape drive is backward read compatible with all three previous generation StorageTek T10000 tape drives.
The StorageTek T10000D uses the same media as its predecessor, enabling customers to increase capacity 55% without investing in new media.
“Oracle’s new StorageTek T10000D tape drive clearly demonstrates Oracle’s continued leadership and innovation in enterprise tape storage technology,” says James Cates, VP, Hardware Development, Oracle.
“With the fastest and highest capacity drive available, customers can accelerate massive consolidation of long-term archives, improve data centre efficiency, and lower TCO. When you add LTFS LE capabilities and Oracle innovations in both data integrity and monitoring, Oracle is taking a commanding lead in storage for long-term data retention and archiving.”