Selected Excerpts from Published Materials

Case Study Problem: Popular song producers, Andrew Frampton in the UK and Steve Kipner in the US, are using VXA-1 FireWire Tape Drives and Dantz Retrospect software as primary storage and backup for all of the current songs that they're producing and co-producing. Originally, they were storing these songs on CD. But each song can easily take up 20 CDs.

The Solution: With VXA, they can just append new out clips to the tape. When needed, Dantz Retrospect Backup Software lets them restore any out clip for a specific date or the entire project. They store the out clips on tape in two folders. The tracking folder stores about 5 gigabytes of tracking information, and a master folder keeps the final edited song. One V17 VXAtape holds up to four songs.

Case Study Problem: The University of Georgia's Department of Chemistry needed several new tape storage devices that could accommodate growing research and administrative data backup requirements while significantly improving backup performance over their existing DDS-2 tape drives. They needed a backup solution that would reliably run over night—every night. They also needed an extremely low total-cost-of-ownership backup solution that falls within the framework of their publicly funded university budget.

The Data: The collected data, or “spectra”, range from 10 megabytes to 100 megabytes of new information every day, and can be analyzed in a number of ways. “These spectra are not cheap to obtain,” explains James de Haseth, Ph.D., the professor and research director. Although the spectral data can be collected in a matter of minutes, the isolation and purification of each sample can cost as much as $10,000 or more and may take several years of work. “We do not have the time or the funding to re-collect these samples,” de Haseth points out. “As such, the reliability of our data backups is crucial.”

The Solution: The VXA-1 tape drives meet their budgetary restraints, work more efficiently than did their old DDS drives, and reliably run their backups over night— every night. As an added benefit, VXA's multiple cartridge capacity selections, from 12 GB up to a compressed 66 GB, provide the perfect means for the department to accommodate its current and planned storage requirements while continuing to stay within its budgetary constraints.

Robotics The Factory Automation Era: There is a rapidly growing need for profit-producing precision robots capable of withstanding toxic environments as well as meeting meticulous requirements like those mandated by particulate-free clean room applications.

Solutions Using the Right Tools: The best way to design and functionally analyze a robotic work cell is to graphically simulate the motion of its components—to rotate and visualize a three-dimensional model that is an actual mathematical representation of the physical objects operating in the real world.

Data Availability In today's increasingly competitive environment, all data is becoming mission critical and data consolidation and protection can be major problems. According to IDC, up to 70% of the enterprise data resides on low-cost platforms. Furthermore, in an environment where asset utilization becomes critical to the bottom line, an increasing percentage of assets are under-utilized. IDC reports show that up to 70% of open NT storage is not utilized.

The significant issue is that this data is out of control and, very likely, out of access. To provide continuous data access, availability and quality of service requires an IT architecture built around a robust enterprise-wide storage area network (SAN) infrastructure.

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