ABOUT SPECTRALOGIC

Founded in October of 1979, Spectra Logic Corporation manufactures tape, disk and encryption libraries that help organizations save time, lower costs and reduce risks while protecting and storing data. 94 percent of Spectra Logic customers would highly recommend the company to their business colleagues.

COMPANY FACTS:

• Founded in 1979 in CEO’s University of Colorado dorm room
• Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with an international office in Oxford, England
• 330 employees worldwide
• Management team members have 18 years experience, on average
• Tens of thousands of tape libraries installed worldwide
• Customers include AT&T, ALLTEL, Bank One, Cisco, Exeter University Hitachi, IRS, Sprint, Tupperware, US Army
• First to offer native iSCSI and Fibre Channel tape libraries
• First to automate Sony’s AIT tape technology
• First to integrate tape and disk in a single framed library with RXT Disk
• First to offer hardware-based library-integrated encryption with compression
• First to offer hardware-based, VTL encryption with compression (RXT)
• First to offer archive and backup servers (nTier)
• Awards include:
  • InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year 2007 (T120 with encryption)
  • Diogenes—Storage Magazine Quality Award for Mid-Range Tape Libraries (2006 and 2007 for mid-range library line)
  • Byte and Switch Big Bytes Awards 2006 (BlueScale Encryption)
  • Deloitte and Touche’s Fast 50 award 2006 and 2007

THREE KEY ISSUEStoday cause the majority of data protection difficulties and related customer headaches. These issues are compliance, complexity and cost.

In the face of frequent new government regulations, changing industry standards and more stringent corporate requirements, data protection environments are being stretched to meet compliance regulations. More and more data needs to be retained for longer periods, using multiple copies, on specific media types—such as WORM—and must be retrievable and recoverable in defined intervals. To make sure that these objectives are met, some corporations are mandating service level agreements. All of this adds another layer of complexity to the already complicated requirements of data protection. Further, as ILM and tiered storage moves into the realm of practice, additional hardware and software from a variety of manufacturers increases data center management. This complex environment frequently demands costly solutions that stretch and quickly outgrow the data protection budget.

Spectra Logic’s Solution Roadmap has been strategically designed to help alleviate these three data protection pain points. First, we are adding new options that can help address compliance concerns and are seamlessly integrated into the existing storage environment. In essence, customers can add new tiers of storage to meet compliance requirements while being assured that they will easily integrate into the storage environment to reduce complexity and cost. Further down the path of the Spectra Logic Solution Roadmap, our solutions will integrate storage components to offer fewer points of management, and then add intelligence to the integrated components, reducing complexity even further.

Spectra Logic Solution Roadmap

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