Digi-Data to Launch Archive Management System at NAB 2008

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Digi-Data Corporation announces the AMS – Archive Management System, a family of energy efficient archive solutions with single mount-point simplicity. Using intelligent, automated data movement between tiers of storage, this system minimizes energy costs while delivering the right combination of price, availability, and access characteristics.

In today’s digital world, progressive organizations continue to amass information until primary storage becomes congested, backups become difficult, and retrieving older digital assets becomes almost impossible. Implementing a cost-effective archive layer enables efficient information management, accommodates data growth and simplifies data protection.

At the core of the large AMS configuration is the Continuum G-series T-4000 controller. With 16 Fibre Channel ports, Disk Power Management, and sophisticated clustering technology, the T-4000 provides a solid base as a RAID controller.

For companies that want to create their own private storage utility, the architecture can also be extended by dropping a small appliance into remote or branch offices, centralizing data protection and archive. This ‘ecko-pod’ synchronizes its backup and archive directories to the main AMS system in the company’s data center to unify the overall corporate archive. In addition, once the small appliance is filled to a certain threshold, older files are moved to the AMS system to prevent it from running out of capacity.

Another key strength of the AMS technology is the removable media support. Evolved over many years of media management, including Blue-ray optical support since early 2005, tapes or optical disks are well managed, whether they are resident nearline or offline. All data formats utilize open standards, so files never get stranded as a result of being created in a proprietary format.

Digi-Data’s Archive Management System, using the Continuum G-series T-4000 controller allows companies to get a handle on their exploding data population in a cost effective, simple way.

Contacts

PR Contact:
Beyond Words PR
Tracy Laidlaw, President
623-878-8878
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Marketing Contact:
Digi-Data Corporation
Amber Pease, Marketing Operations Manager
Phone: 303-604-9020
Mobile: 719-310-8419
amber.pease {at} digidata(.)com