Grainger talks with ChannelBuzz about his plans to build StorMagic’s brand, its channel and its business and become a major player in the HCI space.
While the Spectra Logic TAOS system to improve LTO recall times is the high-profile news here, they also announced zoning to improve robot retrieval performance, a new tool to make it easier to load takes in bulk into libraries, a higher-end maintenance plan for customers who want to train their own people to do repairs, and a new lifetime media data integrity guarantee.
The Spectra Stack is a modular tape library, while the Spectra T950V is a less expensive version of the Spectra T950.
Spectra BlackPearl NAS differs from the Spectra Logic existing Spectra Verde NAS box by being attached to their BlackPearl object storage gateway, and also by being upgradeable to BlackPearl.
Part of HPE’s recent announcements at their Discover event in London involved a new partnership with storage vendor Spectra Logic, for whom the announcement is particularly significant.
The entry-level V Series, with a starting street price of $12,000 – a third of the original S Series – should open up new markets, especially in security, while the high-end P Series is aimed at larger users in the markets served by system integrators.
An extension of the company’s BlackPearl object-based storage gateway, ArcticBlue provides disk archiving at 10 cents per GB – close to the price of disk. It also has a seven year lifespan, compared to three for traditional disk archiving, and works at close to the performance of nearline disk.
