Advanced Digital Information Corporation (Nasdaq:ADIC) is a
leading provider of Intelligent Storage(TM) solutions to the open systems
marketplace. ADIC is the world's largest supplier of automated
tape systems using the
drive technologies most often employed for backing up open system, client-server
networks. The Company's data management software, storage networking appliances,
and disk-based backup and restore solutions provide IT managers innovative tools
for storing, managing, and protecting their most valuable digital assets in a
variety of disk and tape environments. ADIC storage products are available
through a worldwide sales force and a global network of resellers, OEMs and
partnerships, including Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM, and Sun.
Further information about ADIC is available at www.adic.com.
- May 2, 2006 -
Quantum today announced
a definitive agreement under which Quantum will
acquire ADIC for
approximately $770 million.
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Virtual
Tape: Can You Afford to Ignore It? - article by MaXXan Systems
Network
connected disk to disk backup systems for the enterprise have come a long way
since the first pioneering products started to appear in the pages of
STORAGEsearch.com in the late 1990s.
Some of the growing
sophistication in the market can be seen by the way that the marketing
terminology has morphed from the early D2d (let's kill tape backup), via D2D2T
(let's be friends with tape / peaceful coexistence) to the current VTL (Virtual
Tape Library - let's just see if they notice that it's more reliable and works
faster - and don't tell them that there isn't a tape in the box) type of
approaches.
But if you think that speed, reliability and cost are the
only things you need to know about the "virtual" versus "real"
tape library argument - take a look at this comprehensive article from MaXXan
Systems which shows there are a lot more benefits than that. ...read the article,
...MaXXan profile,
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