IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive   Product details   The IBM System Storage™ TS1120 Tape Drive offers a tape solution with high capacity, fast access to data and long-term data retention. It is supported in IBM tape libraries, or frames that support stand-alone installations. Request a Quote   Cartridge capacity   Up to 2.1 TB at 3:1 compression Max. drive data rate   104 MBps native data rate Interface   Supports both IBM ESCON® and FICON® attachment. Sharing drives optimizes drive utilization and helps to reduce infrastructure requirements.

IBM System Storage TS3400 Tape Library   Product details   The IBM System Storage™ TS3400 Tape Library is designed to offer the high capacity and performance advantage of the IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive in a small automation footprint for IBM System i™, System p™, System x™, System z™1 and other open systems environments. The TS3400 tape library is an external 5U standalone or rack-mountable unit that can incorporate up to two TS1120 tape drives. The library supports a data rate transfer of up to 104 MBps per drive. Request a Quote   No. of drives   1 to 2 Supported platforms   System i, System p, System x, System z1, Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Linux® Max. number of cartridges   18 Max. system capacity (3:1 Compression)   37.8TB

IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library   Product details   The IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library (TS3500 tape library) combines IBM automation and drive technology to provide a highly scalable, automated tape library for IBM System z and open systems backup and archive in midrange to enterprise environments. Request a Quote   Max. number of cartridges   6887 LTO, 6260 3592 No. of drives   12 per frame (192 per library) Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)   5,50PB, (11PB) LTO, 4.38PB (8.76PB) 3592 Supported platforms   IBM AIX; IBM OS/400; IBM i5/OS; Windows 2000; Windows Server 2003; Linux; Sun Solaris; and HP-UX. IBM z/OS with the IBM 3953 Tape System

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510   Product details   The IBM Virtualization Engine TS7510 combines hardware and software into an integrated solution designed to provide tape virtualization for open systems servers connecting over Fibre Channel physical connections. The TS7510 combines IBM server technology, disk technology, tape technology with specially developed software that emulates tape libraries, tape drives, and tape media. Request a Quote   Max No of Virtual Libraries   64 virtual libraries per node 128 virtual libraries per system Max No. of Virtual Drives   512 per server node 1,024 per system Max No. of Virtual Cartridges   4,096 per server node 8,192 per system Max. number on concurrent backups   16 per server node 32 per system Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)   96TB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression Supported platforms   AIX 5L™ V5.1, or later Sun Solaris 7, 8, or 9 Microsoft® Windows® 2000 (build 2195, or greater) Microsoft Windows 2003 (build 3790, or greater) HP-UX 11.00, 11i (64 bit), and HP-UX 23pi Linux® distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 and 4.0 (RHEL 3.0 and 4.0 ) and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8 and 9 (SLES 8 and 9)

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7520   Product details   The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7520 (TS7520 Virtualization Engine) combines hardware and software into an integrated solution designed to provide tape virtualization for open systems servers connecting over Fibre Channel physical connections. When combined with physical tape resources for longer term data storage, the TS7520 Virtualization Engine is designed to provide an increased level of operational simplicity and a low cost of ownership and increase reliability to provide significant operational efficiencies. Request a Quote   Max No. of Virtual cartridges   32,000 per server server; 128,000 per system Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)   1.76PB Cache Capacity at 2:1 Compression Max No. of Virtual drives   1,024 per server server; 4,096 per system Max No. on concurrent backups   16 per server node; 32 per system Max No. of Virtual Libraries   128 virtual libraries per server; 512 virtual libraries per system

IBM Virtualization Engine TS7700   Product details   The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7700 (TS7700 Virtualization Engine) is a mainframe virtual-tape solution that is designed to optimize tape processing. Through the implementation of a fully integrated, tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape, the benefits of both technologies can be leveraged to help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today’s tape processing requirements. Deploying this innovative subsystem may help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead. Request a Quote   Supported platforms   IBM System z™

Virtual Tape Server Model B10   Product details   The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B10 (B10 VTS) creates virtual tape drives and volumes on a RAID-5 disk to help eliminate many of the physical delays associated with tape I/O and improve the performance of tape processes. Request a Quote   Maximum number of virtual drives:   64 Cartridge capacity:   Virtual Interface:   FICON® or ESCON® Supported platforms:   System p™, System z™, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun, HP

Virtual Tape Server Model B20   Product details   The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B20 (B20 VTS) is an enterprise tape solution designed to enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today's backup requirements. Adoption of this solution can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead. Automation of a larger portion of a company's data storage may also be facilitated in a shorter period of time. Request a Quote   Maximum number of virtual drives:   256 Cartridge capacity:   Virtual Interface:   FICON® or ESCON® Supported platforms:   System p™, System z™, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun, HP

IBM TotalStorage 3494 Tape Library   Product details   The IBM TotalStorage® 3494 Tape Library is a flexible design that enables organizations to install a solution that helps address current capacity requirements and to add capacity when required. Configurations include a Library Base Frame that may be configured with drive frames, storage frames and up to two IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Servers. Request a Quote   Number of drives   128 Max number of cartridges   6,240 Max system capacity (Compressed)   3.12PB Supported platforms   System z™, System p™, System i™ and System x™ servers running IBM operating systems and Linux®. Open system servers from Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, Intel® processor-based systems running Microsoft® Windows® NT®, 2000 and 2003

¹ Native / Compressed Capacity: The usable capacity of a cartridge is dependent on the environment that it is used in and the compressibility of the data and is typically 2x in an open system environment and 3x in a System z9 environment
² Native / Compressed Performance: The performance of a tape drives is dependent on the environment that it is used in and the compressibility of the data as well as other factors such as the generation of Storage Are Network.
³ System z support for Linux only using FCP