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Spectra Logic Corporation is a computer data storage company based in Boulder, Colorado in the United States. The company builds backup and archive solutions for secondary storage to protect data after it migrates from primary disk. Spectra Logic's primary products are tape libraries and data deduplication appliances. The company was founded in 1979,[1] and is a privately held company.[2]

History

Spectra Logic was founded in 1979 by Nathan C. Thompson in his apartment while he was an engineering student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Thompson is currently the Chairman and CEO of the company.[3]

The company was the first to automate Advanced Intelligent Tape (AIT) magnetic tape in a robotic autoloader (tape library),[4] and was also the first tape library vendor to implement the iSCSI networking protocol in its products.[5] Spectra Logic was again first when it released a tape library with integrated hardware-based data encryption.[6]

Spectra’s T-Finity tape library was introduced in November 2009, offering 99.9% reliability and scaling to 3.6 exabytes of storage capacity in an LTO-5 configuration.[7]

In December 2010, Spectra’s tape library product line won first place in all 14 categories of Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com’s 2010 Quality Awards for enterprise and midrange tape libraries.[8]

In May 2012, DCIG, LLC released a Tape Library Buyer's Guide, which evaluated over 60 tape libraries from 8 storage vendors. Only the Spectra Logic T-Finity and T950 received the highest "Best-in-Class" ranking.[9]

Spectra T950

The Spectra T950 tape library stores media tapes in the tape library bundled in trays called TeraPacks. A TeraPack holds ten tapes, which increases the density of the tape storage, which the company claims simplifies the loading and unloading of the tapes from the library.[10]

There are Spectra T950 installations in several high performance computing (HPC) facilities, including the NASA Ames Research Center, Argonne National Laboratory, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. These customers chose the Spectra T950 because at the time it offered the highest storage density and energy efficiency.[11]

On 20 April 2009, NASA Ames announced that it would replace ten of their 20 year-old Sun Microsystems/Storagetek silo tape libraries with two Spectra Logic T950 tape libraries. This allowed the center to reclaim 1,400 square feet (130 m2) of floor space and increase its storage capacity from 12 petabytes to 32 petabytes. The new tape libraries used 20,000 tape cartridge slots and LTO-4 (Linear Tape-Open) drives.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Spectra Logic".
  2. ^ "Spectra Logic Finds Niche in High-End Tape Storage".
  3. ^ "Nathan C. Thompson".
  4. ^ "Storage Notes: Every ISP Will Need a Tape Library".
  5. ^ "Spectra Logic enables iSCSI on tape libraries".
  6. ^ "Spectra gets backup encryption right".
  7. ^ "Spectra Logic:Taking Tape to Infinity".
  8. ^ "Spectra Logic Reigns Supreme".
  9. ^ "DCIG, LLC Announces Big Data Tape Library Buyers Guide".
  10. ^ "Spectra Logic Finds Niche in High-End Tape Storage".
  11. ^ "Spectra Logic Scores Data Archive Wins as HPC Market Gets "Greener"".
  12. ^ "NASA dumps Sun, sticks with tape for archives".
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