Product Description

The Right Solution For Your Data Management
The AML/J automated storage library offers a unique combination of solutions for your large system midrange data storage needs.
 

AML libraries support more than a dozen media types, including all leading tape formats (3590, 9840, DLTtape, AIT, DTF, etc), non-digital recorders (Betacam, for example), even audio CDs and optical disks.

• The AML/J grows economically with your data using a unique barrier-free expansion system that eliminates pass-through ports
• It protects your organization's IT investment by providing the industry's widest choice of storage technologies, including simultaneous use of different media, and it offers an easy migration path to new technologies.
• It offers an integrated multi-host architecture that makes it easy to share the library between different applications and operating systems.
• And finally, the AML/J provides continuous data availability through a combination of industry leading reliability and a global network of integration, logistics, and field support experts.

The Right Solution For Changing Technology: Mixing And Changing Media Is Easy

Recording technologies are evolving so rapidly that it's difficult to predict which ones will meet your future needs. ADIC AML libraries are the first automated storage products to let you take advantage of this change. They support more than a dozen technologies today, and they are designed for easy field integration of new drive technologies. Older and newer technology can easily co-exist since AML libraries support concurrent operation of different technologies in the same library. The AML multi-media support means

• You can pick the right technology for the information management job at hand.
• You can easily convert your library to next-generation media technologies.
• And you can use a single library to support more than one drive type. No need to buy an additional library!

The Right Solution For Data Growth: True Scalability Within a Single Library

With conventional storage libraries, scalability means that IT managers are forced to buy multiple smaller units with expensive extra robotics and cumbersome pass-through ports-or an entire silo now, even if they only need part of its capacity today. The AML/J system of expansion modules offers a fundamentally different approach. It grows easily and economically in direct response to your data growth-from as few as 2 drives and 400 cartridges up to as many as 226 drives and 7500 cartridges. With the AML/J's unique barrier-free expansion, the entire library is served by a continuous, integrated robotics system that completely eliminates the delays and reliability penalties caused by pass-through ports. With the AML/J, you have low-cost incremental growth combined with the highest levels of performance and reliability.

The Right Solution for Data Availability: Global Integration and Support Services

Continuous data availability is crucial for enterprise-class data storage. ADIC recognizes that total data protection requires an integrated approach that includes both product design and an experienced and committed service and support team. We begin with a design that minimizes moving parts, with uncompromising quality and reliability coupled with redundancy in key hardware elements. Then we incorporate an integration services team, available all over the world, that understands the complex nature of your storage needs and the ways that effective storage can serve your organization. Finally, we add one of the industry's premier global support and logistics teams, one that provides service in more than 40 countries worldwide.

The Right Solution for Enterprise Information: Sharing Storage Across Applications

Information has become the most valuable asset of the contemporary organization, one that needs to be shared throughout the enterprise. With the AML/J's integrated multi-host architecture, your storage library can play a central role in managing all of your data. Multi-host architecture lets your AML/J become a shared network resource that protects and organizes your information across all of your network applications and operating systems, including Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks (SANs). It also lets you partition your library into user-defined volumes, automate media management, and support remote monitoring and operation.

The AML/J scales easily with your data, while maintaining the performance, reliability, and economy of a single integrated ibrary. Up to nine Expansion Modules can be attached to the Base Module without pass-through ports.

AML/J Drive and Media Support

Note: Minimum configuration assumes Base Module with import/export unit and maximum drive count. Maximum configuration assumes Base Module plus nine Expansion Modules filled with media.

AML/J Configurations

The AML/J grows with your data through a barrier-free expansion system that never uses pass-through ports. The Base Module houses drives, media, an import/export unit, and the library controller. The library can be expanded with up to nine Expansion Modules, each housing media alone (Storage Expansion Module) or a combination of media and drives (Drive Expansion Module). Additional two-magazine import/export units may be added to any module to provide automated media transfer or dedicated storage. The single robot and media picker supports concurrent operation of multiple media types and can be easily upgraded in the field to support new drive and media technology.

*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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