IBM enterprise class tape products are designed to offer high performance, availability, reliability, and capacity to help meet the needs of customers seeking enterprise class storage solutions for mass storage, data archiving, enterprise backup, and disaster recovery. IBM's enterprise class storage products provide on-demand solutions for business.
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. Request a quote
Cartridge capacity
Up to 2.1 TB at 3:1 compression
Max. drive data rate
104 MBps native data rate
Interface
Supports both IBM ESCON® and FICON® attachment. Sharing drives optimizes drive utilization 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. Request a quote
Cartridge capacity
Up to 3 TB at 3:1 compression
Max. drive data rate
160 MBps native data rate
Interface
Supports both IBM ESCON® and FICON® attachment. Sharing drives optimizes drive utilization and helps to reduce infrastructure requirements.
IBM System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway
The IBM System Storage™ TS7650G ProtecTIER™ Deduplication Gateway solution meets the disk-based data protection needs of the enterprise data center while enabling significant infrastructure cost reductions. The solution offers high-performance inline data deduplication, optional two node clustering, and up to 1 petabyte (PB) of physical storage capacity per system. Combined with IBM storage, the ProtecTIER Gateway solution provides an optimal disk-based target for backup and archive data. Request a quote
The IBM System Storage™ TS3400 Tape Library is designed to offer the high capacity and performance advantage of the IBM System Storage TS1130 or TS1120 Tape Drives in a small automation footprint for IBM System i™, System p™, System x™, System z™1, IBM Power™ Systems and other open systems environments. The TS3400 tape library is an external 5U standalone or rack–mountable unit that can incorporate up to two tape drives. The library supports a data rate transfer of up to 160 MBps per drive. Request a quote
No. of drives
1 to 2
Supported platforms
System i, System p, System x, System z1, IBM Power Systems, Microsoft® Windows®, HP–UX, Sun Solaris, Linux®
The IBM System Storage™ TS3500 Tape Library (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 in midrange to enterprise environments. Request a quote
No. of drives
12 per frame (192 per library)
Max. number of cartridges
6887 LTO, 6260 3592
Max. system capacity (2:1 Compression)
11 PB LTO at 2:1 compression, 18.6 PB 3592 at 3:1 compression
Supported platforms
IBM AIX®; IBM OS/400®; IBM i; Windows® 2000; Windows Server® 2003; Linux®; Sun Solaris; and HP-UX. IBM z/OS® with the IBM 3953 Tape System
The IBM Virtualization Engine™ TS7700 (TS7700 Virtualization Engine) is a mainframe virtual-tape solution that is designed to optimize tape processing. Through the implementation of a fully integrated, tiered storage hierarchy of disk and tape, the benefits of both technologies can be leveraged to help enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today’s tape processing requirements. Deploying this innovative subsystem may help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead. Request a quote
The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B10 (B10 VTS) creates virtual tape drives and volumes on a RAID-5 disk to help eliminate many of the physical delays associated with tape I/O and improve the performance of tape processes. Request a quote
Maximum number of virtual drives:
64
Cartridge capacity:
Virtual
Interface:
FICON® or ESCON®
Supported platforms:
System p™, System z™, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun, HP
The IBM TotalStorage® Virtual Tape Server Model B20 (B20 VTS) is an enterprise tape solution designed to enhance performance and provide the capacity needed for today's backup requirements. Adoption of this solution can help reduce batch processing time, total cost of ownership and management overhead. Automation of a larger portion of a company's data storage may also be facilitated in a shorter period of time. Request a quote
Maximum number of virtual drives:
256
Cartridge capacity:
Virtual
Interface:
FICON® or ESCON®
Supported platforms:
System p™, System z™, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Sun, HP
The IBM TotalStorage® 3494 Tape Library is a flexible design that enables organizations to install a solution that helps address current capacity requirements and to add capacity when required. Configurations include a Library Base Frame that may be configured with drive frames, storage frames and up to two IBM TotalStorage Virtual Tape Servers. Request a quote
Number of drives
128
Max number of cartridges
6,240
Max system capacity
(Compressed)
3.12PB
Supported platforms
System z™, System p™, System i™ and System x™ servers running IBM operating systems and Linux®. Open system servers from Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard, Intel® processor-based systems running Microsoft® Windows® NT®, 2000 and 2003
1 Native / Compressed Capacity: The usable capacity of a cartridge is dependent on the environment that it is used in and the compressibility of the data and is typically 2x in an open system environment and 3x in a System z9 environment
2 Native / Compressed Performance: The performance of a tape drives is dependent on the environment that it is used in and the compressibility of the data as well as other factors such as the generation of Storage Are Network.
3 System z support for Linux only using FCP
