Podcast

Data storage shouldn’t be a hard task, particularly with the technology available today. Ryan Duffy (Quantum) tells ETM’s Ali Klaver that easy adoption and integration is possible.

Ryan: People are certainly looking at virtualization and they’ve been doing virtualization for quite a number of years. It continues to hold a strong value proposition for customers. This is true particularly with tape. The way most manufacturers deal with this is they provide a partitioning feature which basically virtualizes the library so you can present multiple virtual libraries to multiple hosts or applications, and by doing so maximize the efficiency and the utilization of your assets. With Quantum we offer a partitioning solution that allows customers to create up to 16 virtual libraries per physical library. We have a number of customers that use this virtualization solution to maximize their efficiency. It saves them quite a bit of time when they’re dealing with the management of a single asset, versus up to 16 assets. And it saves them floor space, power and so on. So in terms of doing more with less, the virtualization or partitioning for tape is something that a lot of customers take advantage of. In addition to that, Quantum offers another solution with their encryption key management. We’re the only provider in the industry who offers an encryption key management solution that runs on virtual machines as well. So we’re taking the virtualization value proposition to another level with our products.