Breece Hill Q12.420, Q15.350 and Q18.280 Tape Libraries

When it comes to data intensive applications, Breece Hill Technologies' enterprise line of libraries provide high performance storage and back up solutions with maximum data capacity and transfer rates. Flexible connectivity offers powerful and innovative methods for attaching to SAN environments. Standard Data IQ™ architecture facilitates network management and control of the tape automation process. Tape technology independence provides scalable tape storage solutions. Engineered for large, distributed, open-system environments, the Q12.420, Q15.350 and Q18.280 tape libraries leverage proven automation designs while incorporate cutting-edge innovations that vastly increase their functionality.

You can determine the most appropriate library for your company depending on your back up window and the amount of on-line data capacity desired. The 12 drive, 420 cartridge unit provides massive storage with 33.6 TB capacity and transfers 518 GB/hr compressed data*. The 18 drive, 280 cartridge unit features the fastest transfer rates with 778 GB/hr and offers 22.4 TB capacity with compression*. Or, for a blend of the two, the 15 drive, 350 cartridge library offers 28 TB capacity and transfers 648 GB/hr data with compression*. In any of these libraries though, you'll find reliability and high availability that every IS manager needs.

Product Highlights

Universal Load Plate Design
One of many key features in Breece Hill's engineering design is the patented universal load plate on which tape drives are mounted. This allows you to use drives not only in your Q12.420, Q15.350 and Q18.280, but in any other Breece Hill library as well by swapping them in and out in the field. The universal load plate enables the drive to be field replaceable, and protects your investment by enabling you to scale up as your data capacities grow.

Drive Independent
Even more important, the universal load plate allows the library to be drive independent. This means it can support two different tape drive technologies in the same library. Now you can combine DLT and LTO in the same unit, and seamlessly migrate to new or different linear technologies as your backup needs change.

Advanced Network Connectivity
Engineered for remote, centralized network connectivity, the Q12.420, Q15.350 and Q18.280 libraries offer Breece Hill's DataIQ™ Network Interface. This standard feature is the library's network attach architecture built on open standards. A single board computer mounted on the front door and a custom Java applet called Itela,ä facilitate network monitoring and control via the web, email alerts, or simple network management protocol (SNMP).

Sophisticated Operator Interface
Library control and operation is simplified with a color LCD touch screen mounted on the front door. Here you can configure the library, check its status, run diagnostics, operate the library or perform log activities. If you are offsite, just point your web browser to the library's Internet address and manage the library from anywhere in the world. Such efficient control functionality decreases the cost of operation and ultimately decreases the total cost of ownership.

With DataIQ™ Network Interface, users benefit from: increased efficiency among IS personnel, flexible methods of library monitoring and control, software and hardware cost savings, increased library availability, easy remote management, and highly reliable backup and archival.

SAN Connectivity
With the information explosion, it's important to know that the Q12.420, Q15.350 and Q18.280 libraries provide universal compatibility with any SAN or NAS architecture. So you can be prepared to take your company to the next level of sophistication as your storage goals and priorities change.

Embedded Intelligence
Embedded intelligence is a distinguishing feature of Breece Hill's libraries. The company's patented robotic positioning system consisting of a "learning algorithm" automatically and continuously re-calibrates to compensate for any changes in the library's physical environment. The robot can sense changes in the physical environment and then adjust for those changes, significantly reducing downtime and lowering overall service costs.

The library barcode reader generates faster inventory times than other comparable products. Moreover, extensive recovery routines are enabled in a power-out situation. The library not only remembers what it was doing, but completes the action when power is restored, significantly reducing downtime and service costs.

Easy Library Management
Knowing that the customer's data is their most valuable asset, Breece Hill engineers designed the Q12.420, Q15.350 and Q18.280 for maximum uptime and high availability that is ensured through power-on exchange of tape drives. Users have easy access to tape drives, cartridges and robotics through a lockable front door. Such accessibility protects the integrity of the data by allowing the operator to manually remove cartridges containing mission critical data in the event of a power outage. Drives, power supplies and electronic modules are easily accessed from the rear of the unit, and can be replaced quickly on-site.

Maximum uptime and high availability is ensured in Breece Hill libraries with continuous access to data through redundant load-sharing power supplies, and power-on exchange of tape drives. An optional 30 cartridge locking import-export simplifies media handling and offers additional security for information sensitive backup.

Compatibility Like all Breece Hill libraries, the enterprise line interfaces with any major operating system including UNIX™, Windows NT™, Novell™ and others. They are qualified all leading storage management applications affording you great choice and flexibility in your software selection.

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