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The First Choice for: Capacity, Density, Redundancy
The AML/2 is the industry's premier solution for large data system storage. It offers the industry's largest capacity, scaling to support hundreds of drives and more than 76,000 pieces of media. Supporting multiple drive technologies, the AML/2 can store more than 5,000 terabytes of data (native) and deliver any tape cartridge to any drive in less than 10 seconds. The AML/2's QuadroTower storage module system delivers this capacity with industry-leading density, offering over 6,500 GB per square foot. For true mission-critical applications, the ADIC AML/2 also offers the only large-scale data storage library in which every piece of media can be accessed by two fully redundant robotics systems to ensure maximum continuous data availability.

The AML/2 supports more than a dozen different media types, including all leading tape formats (3590, 9840, DTF, DLT, LTO, AIT, etc), recorders and media used by the broadcast and entertainment industries (Betacam, for example), and audio CDs and optical disks.
 

Making Change Work for You
All the new choices in tape and recording technologies are great news for storage-especially if you pick a library that supports them all instead of being tied to a single drive manufacturer's products. The AML/2 supports more than a dozen technologies today, and offers concurrent operation of different drive types in the same library. It is also designed to support integration of new technologies easily so you benefit, no matter who creates the next great drive. Multi-media capability allows you to:

Cross-Application Data Availability
The AML/2's multi-host architecture lets your library share data across all of your network applications and architectures, including Storage Area Networks. It also supports partition of the library's storage into user-defined virtual libraries, provides for automated data and media management, and allows easy remote monitoring and operation. The combination of the multi-host architecture and simultaneous support of different media types makes the AML/2 the most flexible storage system in the industry.
 

Performance and Scalability Within a Single Library
Library resources must be able to grow with your data. But for conventional systems, with extra robotics and cumbersome pass-through ports, scalability means a much higher prices and much lower performance. The AML/2 offers a fundamentally different approach. The library grows simply by adding new, barrier-free modules; all of them are served by the same robotics without any pass-through ports. This unique expansion system gives the AML/2 the industry's widest range: from 2 to 400 drives and over 76,000 pieces of media. Barrier-free design means easy growth, low cost expansion, and fast performance: any tape is less than 10 seconds from any drive even at the maximum system size.
 

Protected with Global Support
ADIC recognizes that total data management requires an integrated approach that includes both product design and an experienced service and support organization. The AML/2 begins with uncompromising design, ISO 9000 quality, reliability that has been proven in some of the world's most rigorous data storage environments, and redundancy, even in the robotics. Then we incorporate a professional services, infrastructure design, and training team that understands your storage needs and the ways that information serves your organization. To complete the solution, we add one of the industry's premier global support and logistics teams, providing service in more than 40 countries worldwide.
 

Supports Wide Range of Applications
The AML/2's mixed media support and barrier-free scalability make it the preferred choice for a wide range of data management tasks.

Drive and Media Support

*Drive and media capacity will vary depending on number and type of drives and number of cabinets. Contact your ADIC representative for complete configuration options.


 

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