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2008 Announcements for July 15

By Tony Pearson posted Wed July 16, 2008 02:31 AM

  

Originally posted by: TonyPearson


Well, it's Tuesday, and so it is "announcement day" again! Actually, for me it is Wednesday morning herein Mumbai, India, but since I was "press embargoed" until 4pm EDT in talking about these enhancements, I had to wait until Wednesday morning here to talk about them.

World's Fastest 1TB tape drive

TS1130IBM announced its new enterprise [TS1130 tape drive]and corresponding [TS3500 tape library support]. This one has a funny back-story. Last week while we were preparing the Press Release, we debated on whether we should compare the 1TB per cartridge capacity as double that of Sun's Enterprise T10000 (500GB), or LTO-4 (800GB). The problem changed when Sun announced on Monday they too had a 1TB tape drive, so now instead ofsaying that we had the "World's First 1TB tape drive", we quickly changed this to the "World's Fastest 1TB tape drive" instead. At 160MB/sec top speed, IBM's TS1130 is 33 percent faster than Sun's latest announcement. Sun was rather vague when they will actually ship their new units, so IBM may still end up being first to deliver as well.

Here is an IBM podcast to hear more about it:

Forward arrow Listen to IBM's Charlie Andrews describe the new IBM TS1130 1 TB tape drive
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While EMC and other disk-only vendors have stopped claiming that "tape is dead", these recent announcements from IBM and Sun indicate that indeed tape is alive and well. IBM is able to borrow technologies from disk, such as the Giant Magneto Resistive (GMR) head over to its tape offerings, which means much of the R&D for disk applies to tape, keeping both forms ofstorage well invested. Tape continues to be the "greenest" storage option, more energy efficient than disk, optical, film, microfiche and even paper.

Improved Reporting

On the LTO front, IBM enhanced the reporting capabilities of its[TS3310] midrange tape library. This includes identifying the resource utilization of the drives, reporting on media integrity, and improved diagnostics to support library-managed encryption.

IBM System Storage DR550

As a blended disk-and-tape solution, the [IBM System Storage DR550] easily replaces the EMC Centera to meet compliance storagerequirements. IBM announced that we have greatly expanded its scalability, being able to support both 1TBdisk drives, as well as being able to attach to either IBM or Sun's 1TB tape drives.

Massive Array of Idle Disks (MAID)

IBM now offers a "Sleep Mode" in the firmware of the [IBM System Storage DCS9550], which is often called "Massive Array of Idle Disks" (MAID) or spin-down capability. This can reduce the amount of power consumed during idle times.

That's a lot of exciting stuff. I'm off to breakfast now.

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Archive User
Tue September 02, 2008 07:06 PM

Russell,Depends on the TSM server platform. For TSM on z/OS, TS1130 is the better choice, offering both ESCON and FICON attachment. For all other platforms, the tradeoffs favor LTO4. TS1130 is faster (160MB/sec) and higher capacity (1TB per catridge) than LTO4 (120MB/sec and 800GB cartridges), but if you don't need all the other additional features of the TS1130, the LTO-4 can be more cost-effective solution.-- Tony

Archive User
Fri July 25, 2008 11:06 AM

Tony, Hello! Is there any good benchmark data available on TS1130 vs. LTO-4? I have a large user trying to make that decision for a massive TSM implementation at this time.Thanks!

Archive User
Tue July 22, 2008 04:15 PM

Hi,
I'm confused, I've got the following information from IBM Norway
- New IBM 3592 E06 Enterprise Tape Drive (Jaguar 3) - - Third generation 3592 Enterprise Tape Drive - -> same form factor as Jag1/2; plug compatible with existing 3592 models - - For use with all existing 3592 media types (JB, JX, JA, JR, JJ, JW) - - Jag3 Cartridge Capacity: - -> 1 TB cartridge capacity with JB/JX media - -> 640 GB capacity with JA/JW media; - -> 128 GB with JJ/JR media - - Jag3 Datarate: - -> 160 MB/s data rate with JB/JX media - -> 140 MB/s with JA/JW/JJ/JR - - Can read and write 3592 E05 (Jag2) format - -> 150 MB/s with JB/JX media; 140 MB/s with JA/JW/JJ/JR media (vs 100 MB/s native data rate for Jag2) - -> same cartridge capacities as Jag2 (700 GB for JB/JX; 500 GB for JA/JW) - -> Jag3 can reformat Jag2 media to Jag3, and Jag3 media to Jag2 - - Can read 3592 J1A (Jag1) format (write not supported) - - Supports System Managed, Library Managed and Application Managed Encryption - - Available for 3584, 3494, C20, 3577 tape library install, as well as rack install - -> supporting both high-end (3592 J70 and C06 CU attach) as well as open systems attachment - - Dual-port 4GB Fibre channel interface - - Can upgrade existing 3592 E05 tape drives to Jag3 (3592 EU6) - -> but will not include the new Jag3 drive ethernet port - - CU-attach will not support Jag 1/2/3 drive intermix, and all CU-attached 3592 E06 drives must be encryption-enabled
RegardsNils

Archive User
Tue July 22, 2008 10:40 AM

Jack, I grew up in Bolivia, which is generally ranked among the bottom half of the countries based on GDP per capita (PPP). It currently has a PPP of $2900 according to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Bolivia
I now live in the USA, with a PPP of $48,000. Second only to Switzerland. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_USA
India, falls somewhere in between, with a PPP of $4,543.
-- Tony

Archive User
Tue July 22, 2008 07:36 AM

please google the below links for classification on poverty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Indiahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_languages_of_India

Archive User
Tue July 22, 2008 06:58 AM

"Having lived in one of the poorest countries, and one of the richest, nothing surprises me anymore". These Lines from your blog are with respect to which country .

Archive User
Mon July 21, 2008 07:40 PM

Nils, I spoke to Randy Fleenor, who is my contact in Tape world, who confirmed that the 160MB/sec native data rate applies to any of the supported tape cartridge capacities.
Also, the TS1130 can write or append TS1120-format tapes, but in this case you get slower performance. The TS1130 is not emulating a TS1120, but rather making the cartridge format compatible so that it can be read back in a TS1120 drive.
-- Tony

Archive User
Fri July 18, 2008 07:52 AM

Nominal TS1130 read/write performance is 160 MB/sec (uncompressed) if you use long tape (JB). What about read/write performance with standard length tape (JA)? I've checked TS1130 Data Sheet, I cannot find anything about this. For me it seems that capacity is 640 GB (JA assumed), but what about performance?

Archive User
Wed July 16, 2008 08:51 PM

Tmasteen,Sorry, I can't talk about unannounced products.-- Tony