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Palindrome and Spectra Logic Announce Agreement on Backup Director and Storage Manager Software

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Palindrome Corp., a Seagate software company, and Spectra Logic, a division of Western Automation, have announced an agreement that makes Palindrome's Backup Director(TM) 4.0 and Storage Manager(TM) 4.0 software available with Spectra Logic Spectra 4000 and Spectra 9000 tape library systems. This partnership provides backup storage solutions that deliver new levels of fault-tolerance, user expandability, and automation to the protection and management of network storage.

Key Takeaways:

  • The agreement provides backup storage solutions that deliver new levels of fault-tolerance, user expandability, and automation to the protection and management of network storage.
  • Backup Director 4.0 is a complete backup software solution for networks, while Storage Manager 4.0 is the first fully-integrated backup, archiving, and hierarchical storage management (HSM) software for networks.
  • The Spectra 4000 and Spectra 9000 tape library systems offer a user-expandable number of tape drives and cartridge slots, with capacities up to 600 GB and the ability to scale to exceed 3 TB with 28 systems chained together.
  • Palindrome's SafeStore(TM) technology automatically selects another available drive upon detection of a media, interface, or tape drive failure and immediately alerts the administrator.
  • The Palindrome software is scalable, allowing fast and easy upgrade from Backup Director software to Storage Manager software when the need for archiving, file migration, and HSM arises.
  • Automation improvements include integrated touch-screen control and Palindrome's exclusive Dynamic Parallelism(TM), which automatically utilizes all available drives within the Spectra Logic library system and load balances available drives for optimal performance.
  • Palindrome's intelligent file-tracking database simplifies media management, reduces recovery times, and supports the built-in bar code functions of the Spectra Logic systems.

Statistics:

  • The Spectra 4000 and Spectra 9000 tape library systems offer capacities up to 600 GB and the ability to scale to exceed 3 TB with 28 systems chained together.
  • Palindrome's software is designed to the same standards as Spectra Logic products and is the perfect complement to their systems.
  • Palindrome software is immediately available with the Spectra Logic library systems through Spectra Logic authorized resellers.
  • Spectra Logic has manufactured high-end data storage products since 1989.
  • Palindrome, headquartered in Naperville, designs its products for the highest reliability, ease of use, performance, and value.

Sources:

  • Palindrome Corp. press release, dated Oct. 16, 1995
  • Business Wire article, dated Oct. 16, 1995
  • Spectra Logic website, accessed on [no date]
  • Palindrome Corp. website, accessed on [no date]
  • Della Torre Communications Inc. press release, dated [no date]

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