While magnetic tape has one of the longest archival lifetimes of all storage solutions now available, dimensional stability remains a problem with tape generally, and that has an effect on the robustness of data. Consequently, Oracle has chosen aramid as the StorageTek T10000 T2 substrate in order to assure superior tape dimensional stability performance and long-term archival life no matter what the storage environment. The Oracle white paper "Protecting Your Archival Data With Improved Tape Dimensional Stability" explains this, providing some insight into the factors that make for longer lasting tape.
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"Evaluating Tape Drive Performance" is an Oracle white paper that discusses the total performance of a tape drive, and how it should be evaluated to determine which drive provides the best performance solution. The paper cautions against selecting a new tape drive system on the criterion of host interface speed alone. The speed of the storage application in sending data to, or processing data from, the drive, and the speed at which the tape drive writes or reads data at the head/media interface are also vital considerations, it maintains. Oracle, the white paper asserts, is focused on delivering storage solutions rooted in true customer applications. By focusing on native drive performance, and doubling throughput on the newest StorageTek T10000 tape drive, Oracle is solving a real customer problem, the white paper concludes.
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A welcome entry on the tape storage stage is the Oracle StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive, which features native capacity of five terabytes and native throughput of 240 MB per second. Given the relentless pressures on administrators to provide cost-effective archival and backup solutions, the T10000C has arrived just in time. "Lowering Storage Costs with the World's Fastest Tape Drive," an Oracle white paper, calls the StorageTek T10000C " ... the world's fastest, highest capacity enterprise tape drive," capable of delivering the lowest total cost of ownership.
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"Oracle is very committed to the tape business," Jim Cates, vice president of tape development at Oracle, told Enterprise Storage Forum. Writing for internet.com's ESF, Paul Shread also reveals correspondence from Large Tape Users Group (LTUG) executive board president Geoff Cleary who is optimistic about Oracle's plans for its tape product line following a recent LTUG event where Oracle was present.
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Geisinger Health Systems upgraded its IT environment with a Sun StorageTek tape solution that strengthened the organization's regulatory compliance while improving performance and data integrity at its primary and remote datacenter sites. The new back up and recovery solution stores and encrypts healthcare records from its mainframe system for more than two million patients.
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