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On-premises tape storage solution offers Amazon S3 Glacier-compatible option for cold data storage with significant savings compared to public cloud
BOULDER, Colo. February 6, 2024 – Spectra Logic®, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced it has validated its On-Prem Glacier solutions for deployment in NetApp StorageGRID® object-based storage environments. The new combination creates a hybrid cloud storage infrastructure optimized for preserving large amounts of data over extended periods of time. With this solution, inactive data may be tiered to object-based tape storage, providing greater scalability, robust security and substantial cost savings compared to public cloud options.
Spectra® TFinity® library becomes the world’s largest tape storage system as it breaks the multi-exabyte barrier for storing uncompressed data.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced support for the IBM® TS1170 tape drive in its enterprise-class libraries. The incorporation of this latest generation of IBM tape drive and its corresponding media brings unprecedented new levels of storage density and capacity to Spectra Logic® TFinity® ExaScale, T950 and T950v libraries.
BRACKNELL, UK – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that it has partnered with Titan, a specialist distributor offering end-to-end data management solutions and cybersecurity services. The relationship, which spans the EMEA region, will leverage Titan’s knowledge of and track record in the data management industry to further broaden Spectra’s reseller base.
Combined Data Management and Storage Solutions Represent Game-Changing High Computing Performance and Data Availability to Accelerate Innovation and Business Success
BOULDER, Colo. and MELBOURNE, Australia – Arcitecta, a creative and innovative data management software company, and Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that they have teamed to deliver two groundbreaking solutions that simplify data lifecycle management and accelerate performance speed, innovation, and business success. The Arcitecta Mediaflux + Spectra BlackPearl NAS solution provides high-performance scale-out NAS and the Arcitecta Mediaflux + Spectra BlackPearl Object Storage solution provides archive economics, high availability, enterprise-grade data protection and massive cost savings.
SLAC Expects Their Total Storage Needs to Reach Upwards of Two Exabytes by 2033
BOULDER, Colo. - Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that the company deployed an 18-frame Spectra® TFinity® ExaScale Tape Library with LTO-9 tape drives and media at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA. SLAC develops and implements some of the world’s most advanced scientific tools for exploring how the universe works at the biggest, smallest and fastest scales. Operated by Stanford University for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, SLAC pushes the frontiers of knowledge and drives discoveries that benefit humankind.
New Spectra Digital Archive Solution Seamlessly Integrates Storage Software and Hardware to Economically Safeguard Data for Decades on a Mix of Storage Targets
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced a modern archive solution for organizations that must manage and preserve massive amounts of data for long-term retention purposes. The new solution, called Spectra Digital Archive, is powered by Spectra StorCycle®, an enterprise software designed to easily and cost-effectively archive data at scale. Spectra Digital Archive enables organizations to manage and archive terabytes to petabytes of unstructured data, digitally preserving that data on any combination of disk, tape and cloud, without sacrificing reliability or data availability.
Spectra’s Vail multi-cloud data management software enables customers to take full advantage of Wasabi’s low-cost, fast and reliable cloud storage on demand.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced a partnership with Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud company, that integrates Wasabi cloud storage with the Spectra Vail® unified data management solution. With the integration, Spectra Vail customers can now take advantage of Wasabi’s low-cost storage service, with no fees for egress or API requests, to further optimize data storage costs and accessibility across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
Spectra Vail Distributed Multi-Cloud Data Management Software Lauded for Data Management Product Innovation
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that the company and its solutions won 12 top product and corporate awards from prestigious industry and media organizations.
Spectra’s hybrid cloud storage solution enables customers to take advantage of S3 applications while providing fast recovery of frequently accessed data
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that its Spectra BlackPearl S3 solution has attained Veeam Ready qualification in both the Object and Object with Immutability categories. Spectra’s BlackPearl solution meets Veeam’s high standards for compatibility and performance as an S3-compatible object storage target for customers using Veeam Backup & Replication™ v11. With this designation, Veeam customers can be assured that Spectra’s BlackPearl S3 meets Veeam’s requirements as an object storage target, including immutability with Object Lock, enabling on-premises hybrid cloud storage that delivers S3 interoperability, scalability and cost efficiency.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that its customer, EPCC, has deployed two four-frame Spectra TFinity ExaScale Tape Libraries with LTO-8 tape drives and media to provide long-term archive and storage resources for the Edinburgh International Data Facility’s full range of data services.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced a collaboration with the iRODS Consortium to create a joint solution built upon Spectra Vail® software, Spectra BlackPearl® S3 storage and the iRODS data management platform. The combined solution enables customers to use industry-standard cloud interfaces for on-premises disk and on-premises glacier* storage with object tape, while unlocking multi-site/multi-cloud capabilities.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that Spectra Vail, a distributed multi-cloud data management software, was awarded ‘Best of Show’ by TVB Europe at the IBC 2022 tradeshow. TVB Europe is a leading media outlet serving traditional broadcast media.
Imperial War Museums, with the support of Spectra Logic and other vendors, enable generations of visitors to explore a collection of more than one million items spanning over 100 years of history
BOULDER, Colorado – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that its customer, Imperial War Museums (IWM), has won the 2022 IBC Innovation Award in ‘Content Distribution’ for a prodigious project working with Spectra Logic and technology partners on the design of a digital asset management and storage ecosystem with multi-site implementation across data centres in Cambridge and London. With the aim of excellence in digital preservation, this IWM project enables generations to explore more than one million items amassed since 1917 in IWM’s five branches. The 2022 IBC Innovation Awards celebrate the spirit of collaboration within the content and technology industry, recognizing the best new ways to manage content and connect creators and consumers, or creators and their collaborators.
Spectra unveils new enhancements to its multi-site, multi-cloud data management software to accelerate the performance of standard S3 storage, improve ransomware resiliency, and provide on-premises glacier-like* storage
BRACKNELL, UK – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that it will provide demonstrations of Spectra Vail® Multi-Cloud Data Management Software at IBC 2022, RAI, Amsterdam, from 9th to 12th September, in Stand# 7.A43. Visitors to Spectra’s stand will see how Vail optimises media and entertainment hybrid cloud workflows and provides seamless universal access and management of data across multiple sites and clouds.
New Vail features accelerate performance for standard S3 and on-premises glacier-like* storage, and improve ransomware resiliency by delivering support for AWS Object Lock in the same manner as AWS
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced several enhancements to Spectra Vail®, a multi-cloud data management software, that further enriches Vail’s ability to combine any storage into a single global namespace — delivering universal access and placement of data across multi-site and multi-cloud storage no matter where the data resides. Spectra Vail centralizes data management across on-premises and multi-cloud architectures, simplifying the access, sharing, usage and protection of data.
Latest Report Sees New Multi-Cloud Support Capabilities Generate Renewed Interest in Tape; Electrical Energy Consumption on the Rise, and IT Security Continues to be Top Priority for Foreseeable Future
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced the release of its seventh Data Storage Outlook report. This comprehensive annual report explores how the world manages, accesses, uses and preserves its ever-growing data repositories. Serving as a valuable planning resource for IT leaders, it also delves into the strategies and technologies designed with the vital role of protecting the data being created now and in the future.
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that Spectra Vail, a distributed multi-cloud data management software, won the 2022 NAB Show Product of the Year Awards in the Cloud Computing and Storage category. This official awards program recognizes the most significant and promising new products and technologies showcased by corporate partners of the NAB Show.
Spectra Logic provides innovative data management software that simplifies and automates the storage workflow for Televisión de Puebla providing familiar access to archived data
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that Spectra’s StorCycle® Storage Lifecycle Management Software has been deployed by Televisión de Puebla, the public TV network of the Mexican state of Puebla, to strengthen its ability to protect and preserve its invaluable Puebla cultural heritage content.
The Spectra solution scans IQVIA primary storage, identifies data to archive based on pre-defined criteria, and automates the migration of data to the right storage tier at the right time
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that Spectra’s StorCycle® Storage Lifecycle Management Software was deployed by IQVIA as part of an overall solution to enhance the organization’s ability to capture and preserve global healthcare data sets to achieve modern data science advancements. IQVIA chose a comprehensive solution from Spectra Logic consisting of three instances of Spectra’s StorCycle storage lifecycle management software, two Spectra BlackPearl® object storage platforms, and two Spectra® Stack Tape Libraries with LTO-8 tape drives and media.
Storage Magazine and SearchStorage Selects Spectra StorCycle as a Finalist in the Storage System and Application Software Category
BOULDER, Colo. – Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that Spectra’s StorCycle® Storage Lifecycle Management Software has been recognized as a finalist in the prestigious Storage Magazine and SearchStorage 2021 Product of the Year awards program. For 20 years, the data storage competition has recognized outstanding enterprise data storage products to help IT professionals make wise solution choices. Spectra StorCycle is an easy-to-use, affordable and efficient software solution built to help organizations understand, manage, use and protect their growing repositories of data.
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