Enterprise tape storage

The IBM System Storage™ TS1120 Tape Drive offers a tape solution with high capacity, fast access to data and long-term data retention. It is supported in IBM tape libraries, or frames that support stand-alone installations.

• Cartridge capacityUp to 2.1TB at 3:1 compression
  
• Max. drive data rateSupports both IBM ESCON® and FICON® attachment.
  
• InterfaceSharing drives optimises drive utilisation and helps to reduce infrastructure requirements.

The IBM System Storage TS1130 Tape Drive offers a tape solution with high capacity, fast access to data and long-term data retention. It is supported in IBM tape libraries, or frames that support stand-alone installations.

• Cartridge capacityUp to 3TB at 3:1 compression
  
• Max. drive data rate160MBps native data rate
  
• InterfaceSupports both IBM ESCON® and FICON® attachment. Sharing drives optimises drive utilisation and helps to reduce infrastructure requirements.

The IBM System Storage TS1140 Tape Drive offers a tape solution with high capacity, fast access to data and long-term data retention. It is supported in IBM tape libraries, or frames that support stand-alone installations.

• Cartridge capacity4 TBs
  
• Max. drive data rate250 MegaBytes per second (MBps) native data rate
  
• InterfaceSupports IBM FICON attachment Sharing drives optimises drive utilisation and helps to reduce infrastructure requirements

The IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway is designed to meet the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data centre while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions.

• Cartridge capacity256 virtual tape drives per node (512 per 2 node cluster) and 512,000 virtual cartridges (65,000 per library)
  
• PerformanceUp to 2000 MegaBytes per second (MBps) or more sustained backup performance; up to 2800 MBps or more sustained recovery performance
  
• InterfaceVirtual Tape Library or Symantec OpenStorage (OST)

IBM System Storage TS7680 ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway for System z

The IBM System Storage™ TS3400 Tape Library is designed to offer the high capacity and performance advantage of the IBM System Storage TS1120 Tape Drive in a small automation footprint for IBM System i™, System p™, System x™, System z™1 and other open systems environments. The TS3400 tape library is an external 5U standalone or rack-mountable unit that can incorporate up to two TS1120 tape drives. The library supports a data rate transfer of up to 104 MBps per drive.

• No. of drives1 to 2
  
• Supported platformsSystem i, System p, System x, System z¹, Microsoft® Windows®, HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Linux®
  
• Max. number of cartridges18
  
• Max. system capacity (3:1 Compression)37.8TB

The IBM System Storage TS3500 Tape Library combines IBM automation and drive technology to provide a highly scalable, automated tape library for IBM System z and open systems backup and archive that can scale from midrange to enterprise environments.

• No. of drives12 per frame (192 per library, 2700 per complex)
  
• Max. number of cartridges> 20,000 Linear-Tape Open (LTO) per library, 300000 per complex, >15,000 3592 per library, 225000 per complex
  
• Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)900 PetaByte (PB) LTO at 2:1 compression
  
• Max. system capacity (3:1 Compression)2.7 ExaByte (EB) 3592 at 3:1 compression
  
• Supported platformsIBM AIX; IBM OS/400; IBM i; Windows® 2000; Windows Server 2003; Linux®; Sun Solaris; and Virtualisation Engine TS7740, or the IBM System Storage Tape Controller for System z.

The IBM virtualisation Engine TS7700 (TS7700 virtualisation Engine) is a family of mainframe virtual-tape solutions designed to optimise tape processing. The TS7700 virtualisation Engine family has been designed to help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today’s tape processing requirements. Deploying this innovative subsystem can reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead.

• No. of drivesSingle node: 256 virtual tape drives
  Two-cluster grid: 512 virtual tape drives
  Three-cluster grid: 768 virtual tape drives
  Four-cluster grid: 1024 virtual tape drives
  Six-cluster grid: 1536 virtual tape drives
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• Supported platformsIBM® System z®