LTO Ultrium Media

Quantum media cartridges are manufactured to the highest industry standards for quality and reliability, ensuring low error rates, high performance and long-term durability. Quantum media allows you to archive your data with confidence. The Quantum media family offers you more choices to better manage your data over time, and now includes LTO Ultrium tape cartridges. Our LTO Ultrium tape format has been optimized for high capacity and performance with outstanding reliability, in either stand-alone or automated environments. The Quantum LTO Ultrium product line ranges from 200GB* to 1600GB* capacity per cartridge, making it an ideal choice for capacity specific backup and archive applications.

Current LTO media products include:

LTO Ultrium 4 (MR-L4MQN-01)
LTO Ultrium 4 WORM (MR-L4MQN-02)
LTO Ultrium 3 (MR-L3MQN-01)
LTO Ultrium 3 WORM (MR-L3MQN-02)
LTO Ultrium 2 (MR-L2MQN-01)
LTO Ultrium 1 (MR-L1MQN-01)
LTO Universal Cleaning (MR-LUCQN-01)

DLTtape media

Quantum DLTtape media is the brand to trust with your mission critical data. Tested to exacting standards for reliability, durability and longevity. Quantum offers the broadest line of DLTtape media ranging from 20GB* to 1600GB* making it the brand that you can count on to protect your companies’ most critical information assets.

High Storage Capacity – Up to 300GB native and 1600GB* compressed
Exceptional Value – Highest capacity and lowest cost per GB in the midrange
Solid Reliability - Patented tape technology delivers reliable operation in high duty cycle environment with one million passes and a 30-year archival life
Current DLTtape media products include:

SDLT I (MR-SAMCL-01)
SDLT II (MR-S2MQN-01)
DLT-S4 (MR-S4MQN-01)
DLTtape III (THXKC-01)
DLTtape IIIxt (THXKE-01)
DLTtape IV (THXKD-01)
DLTtape VS1 (MR-V1MQN-01)
VS160/DLT-V4 Cleaning ( MR-V1CQN-01)
CleaningTape III for DLT 2000, DLT 2000XT, DLT 4000, DLT 7000 and DLT 8000 (THXHC-02)
DLT VS Cleaning for DLT VS80 (BHXHC-02)
SDLT Cleaning for SDLT 220, SDLT 320, SDLT 600 and DLT-S4 (MR-SACCL-01)

Quantum Trade-In Program April 1 - June 30, 2009

Receive discounts from $250 to $12,500 when you trade in your existing Quantum or competitive tape drive, autoloader, library or disk-based backup system and purchase a new Quantum Superloader 3 autoloader, PX720 or SCALAR Series tape library, or DXi-Series disk-based backup system.

Product Purchased                                        Discount

Superloader 3:  DLT VS160, LTO-2         $250

Superloader 3:  LTO3 or LTO4                   $500

SCALAR 50                                                        $1,000

SCALAR i500  5u - 41 slots                         $1,500

SCALAR i500  14u - 41 to 133  slots         $2,000

SCALAR i500  23u - 41 to 225 slots          $2,500

DXi3500                                                               $1,500

More discounts apply contact us at:  https://www.tapeoutlet.net

Data Protection for Virtual Servers

The Business Continuity Challenge:

Organizations are increasingly implementing virtualization server technologies to consolidate their physical infrastructures and reduce hardware, power and cooling expenses.

Customers also use virtualization to relocate workloads between physical resources, enabling additional benefits such as enhanced business continuity.

To build a complete business continuance strategy, multiple components are required including:

High availability

Virtual machine and data recovery

Disaster recovery and archiving capabilities

Implementing these functions enables rapid recovery from events such as interruptions to application access and data loss which can disrupt, even cripple business operations. Opposing the benefits of implementing virtualization servers is the fact that many users find that they need more storage than ever before. A recent ESG* study found that over half of virtualization users experienced a net increase in total storage volume as a direct result of implementing server virtualization. And with this increase of storage, transmitting data over a WAN to a remote site for disaster recovery can be very expensive.

Quantum Solution

By leveraging de-duplication technology, the storage requirements for the backup of virtualized servers can be significantly reduced. Remote replication, usually prohibitively expensive due to excessive bandwidth requirements, is now affordable due to the reduction data reduction.

Reducing storage requirements a virtual machine and its data can be encapsulated in a file. For example in a VMware environment, to create the new virtual machine you just need two files: a virtual machine configuration file (.vmx) and a virtual machine hard disk (.vmdk). This .vmdk file can be massive but it is a great candidate for data reduction using de-duplication. Repeated full backups of the .vmdk files use a very small amount of physical disk storage on a de-duplicating backup system. Incremental backups can also be reduced due to duplication of the previous day’s data.

Cost Effective Replication for Disaster Recovery

By reducing data using de-duplication before replication, WAN costs can drop dramatically. Using multiple sites for data retention or for failover processing is now affordable.

Ease-of-Deployment

Quantum deduplication storage systems have been qualified for with leading backup and archiving applications including BakBone, CommVault, EMC, and Symantec. Using backup agents in the virtual machines or VMware Consolidated Backup are both supported.

To learn more contact us directly at:  https://www.tapeoutlet.net/contact_us.php?osCsid=1en039nu0q136u9440pl0nsmk7

Small Office data backup Cheap and efficient

The GoVault Data Protection Solution is a fast, simple, reliable and affordable disk-based data protection solution that satisfies the backup, disaster recovery, and archive needs of small business. GoVault’s unique Data Protection software for Windows utilizes data deduplication technology to provide an extremely cost-effective solution by reducing the number of cartridges required for effective backups by up to 20:1. The result is reduced media usage and significantly faster daily backups, so performance doesn’t have to be compromised for convenience, while providing a simple to use, easy to organize solution that is tough enough for real-life handling. The GoVault Data Protection Solution includes two ruggedized, password protected, removable media cartridges allowing for secure and reliable onsite/offsite backup practices. The GoVault Data Protection Solution is the ideal tape replacement for SMB customers looking to upgrade their current backup devices with an easy to use, affordable, disk-based solution.

See an interactive demo:  http://www.quantum.com/flash/govault/GoVault.html

Quantum’s DXi-Series Helps AIC Cut Daily Backup Window While Saving Money and Staff Time

Overnight backups were stretching well into the next work day, the time to manage all that data was increasing, and the cost of so much tape storage had also become an issue. By replacing its existing tape system with a Quantum DXi5500 disk backup solution featuring data deduplication and replication technology, AIC reduced their daily backup time by as much as seven hours, drastically cut its tape storage costs, and significantly decreased the time IT staff spent managing backups and restores.

Learn more click here:

http://quantum.mv.treehousei.com/HTML/Newsletters/200904/article2.html

Combining Deduplication and Replication: A Best Practice Guide for Multisite DR

The minimum Disaster Recovery (DR) protection required from every IT organization should ensure that backup data is safe from site loss or damage. Equipment and applications can be replaced eventually, but digital assets are often irreplaceable. When all copies of data are located at a single site and in a single hardware system, they are vulnerable to site-specific damage, including natural disasters, fire, theft, and malicious or accidental equipment damage. With Quantum’s approach, combining data deduplication and replication together provides a highly efficient approach to your DR plan.  

To learn more click here:  http://quantum.mv.treehousei.com/HTML/Newsletters/200904/article1.html

Scalar 50

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up, The Quantum Scalar 50 has promotions that will save you a lot of money. $1,200 up front on the 2 Drive LTO-4 units with another promotion that will give you free media Quantity of 10. so with both promotions that gives you a saving of around $1,800 on this.
The Scalar 50 has 38 slots and can be expanded with an additional unit to 76 slots. using Fibre, SCSI or SAS this unit will be able to satisfy your tape backup needs. Act now for this promotion will expire on: 30June2009

New rewards program

Buy $1000.00 Dollars and get a visa card of $25.00 on any purchase from tapeoutlet.net more information here

Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 upgrades

For all of us that get upset every time we need to buy a new license for BackupExec; I have good news.

Version 12.5 comes standard with openfile agent; so you dont need to purchase this license any more.

What happens is every time you where backing up a IIS meta data sometime the system will skip files; and you will get the annoying orange warning.

Well now is free; to setup make sure you selected on your backup agent and you also selected in your template or policy.

This is a good time to upgrade to version 12.5 if you haven’t done so.