1 / 23

Tape Drive Market Analysis - Technology, Capacity, and Performance

This analysis provides an overview of tape drive technologies, including SDLT, Ultrium, and DLT, along with their capacities and performance. The market share and future trends in tape automation are also discussed.

amada
Download Presentation

Tape Drive Market Analysis - Technology, Capacity, and Performance

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. DATA LAYOUTS ON TAPE 1/2" and 1/4" Tapes 4mm & 8mm Tapes Linear & Helical Scan Recording Methods ULTRIUM DLT DLT VS80 SDLT STK 9840 SLR/QIC/Travan IBM 3480/90, 3570, Magstar ½” reel to reel head movement LINEAR DDS 2,3,4 Exabyte 8mm Mammoth AIT 1, 2 Ecrix VXA Sony DTF HELICAL SCAN track of head across tape 90 degree drum wrap

  2. The Tape Drive Market Place (GB) Native 120 110 SDLT 220 100 High Performance ULTRIUM 215 ULTRIUM 230 90 80 70 60 Mammoth2 (M2) 50 AIT-2 DLT VS80 40 DLT80 30 AIT-1 Low/Mid Range Near-Line Storage 20 M1 DDS-4 Magstar 3490 9840 10 DDS-3 0 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 (MB/sec) Native

  3. Tape Market Share 2000 (units) Source: IDC May 2000 HP continues to be the highest volume tape manufacturer and supplier

  4. Tape Automation Market Share 2000 (units) Source: IDC May 2001 More customers buy HP Tape Libraries than anyone –else.

  5. Tape Market Rationalization Future Now Premium Ultrium Single Automation Platform & Linear Reliability Ultrium & SDLT TAM 200K SDLT Performance Ultrium HH DLT8000 DLT7000 TAM 400K UltriumHH VS Tape 160 8mm 2 Value TAM 400K AIT 8mm 1 VS Tape 80 Entry DDS SLR TAM 1100K QIC

  6. DLT/LTO Tape Technology Forecast & HP Bristol Analysis CAGR 78% SDLT class DLT80 class CAGR – 1% VS class HP will supply all these technologies – in order to best meet user needs.

  7. HP tape technology comparison DDS/DAT 9840 VS80/DLT80/SDLT Ultrium 4-20 GB capacity 20 GB capacity 40-110 GB capacity 100 GB capacity 2-10 GB/hr 36 GB/hr 5-36 GB/hr 21-54 GB/hr Inexpensive, proven technologywith compatibility over generations, Vlargeinstalled base Extremely fast access (11 sec ave.) for near-line storage applications Reliable industry standard with broad compatibility across the range, largeinstalled base High-performance and extreme reliabilitywith manageability features, open standard of the future Native capacity & performance shown For more detailed specifications see Appendix 1

  8. Current Portfolio Positioning high-end / enterprise server SDLT 220 ultrium230 dlt80 ultrium215 mid-range servers dlt vs80 dat40 low-end servers dat24 ultrium dds SDLT dlt

  9. DDS Technology Attributes • No further development planned • Highest volume tape technology in service today (12M drives) • Relatively low drive cost, very low media cost • Best used in:- • low end servers • high capacity interchange • OS recovery device (using OBDR) • 4 generations with backwards compatibility • Only rated at 12% duty cycle (3 hours per day) • Cost effective entry level automation • Successful because of standards HP, Sony Seagate

  10. Ultrium Technology Attributes • The new tape technology for the Enterprise from, HP, IBM & Seagate. • 4 generation roadmap until 2007 (800GB/160MB/sec native) • “Best of Breed” technology approach, GEN1 technically conservative. • HP is the ONLY vendor to have a half-height Ultrium product (Ultrium 215). • HP Unique “data rate matching” to ensure streaming on lower performance hosts. • Designed for automation – ultra-reliable load/unload, Cartridge Memory (future), surrogate scsi • High data integrity – data can be recovered even if 32mm of tape is completely unreadbale. • OBDR support • LOW RISK

  11. SDLT Technology Attributes • Quantums new Enterprise technology • Revolutionary new servo system LGMR • Lower Performance (11MB/sec) than Ultrium • Has 2 sets of heads to be able to read older DLT tapes • Compromise leader design to load older DLT tapes • No DRM but large (32M) buffer • Uses PRML to get high capacity • Infra red diagnostics port • Single source • Future roadmap keeps changing

  12. Interchange capabilities * = native ** = requires front panel intervention

  13. HP Stand Alone Tape Automation Family – Technology support enterprise mid-range autoloader 1/9 2/20 4/40 6/60 8/80 10/100 10/180 20/700 24*6 40*6 900GB 2.0TB 4.0TB 6.0TB 8.0TB 10.0TB 17.4TB 67.8TB 360GB 800GB 1.6TB 2.4TB 3.6TB 4.0TB 7.0TB 27.1TB 360GB DLT1 990GB 2.2TB 4.4TB 6.6TB 8.8TB 11.0TB 19.14TB 74.6TB 6*12GB 6*24GB 3.5TB 13.6TB Native capacities shown

  14. Tape Libraries Projection WW (000’s of units) Total units 133.8 Total units 61.8 Source: Freeman reports May 2000 “early indications confirm a quick LTO ramp and strong market acceptance” Bob Abraham senior tape analyst Freeman Associates

  15. Where to connect the tape drive/Library • Direct Attach (DA) – Tape is attached directly to the server it is backing up. Used generally in small/medium businesses where there is no centralised backup policy. This market is still a very high revenue earner for HP – everytime you sell a server – sell a backup solution. • Over the Network(OTN) – Tape drive or more likely an autoloader/library is connected to a “dedicated backup server” which backs up remote servers over a dedicated backup LAN. Allows centralised backup and easier manageabilty.Network bandwidth on 100 baseT can be an issue, ( MAX 25GB Hr) but Gigabit Etherenet (1000BaseT) is allowing higher performance tape drives to be used in this environment (MAX 234 GB/Hr).

  16. Where to connect the tape drive/Library • Storage Area Networks (SAN). – In this implementation Libraries are shared by multiple servers via Fibre channel allowing maximum backup/restore flexibility. The data can always be made accessible even if a particular server is down. However the cost of a shared FC Library in a SAN environment can be high. SANs are not yet fully plug and play – check with your storage specialist to see what confgurations are supported by HP. • Extra Server Sales! – remember that as well as selling Application based servers, somewhere in the corporations infrastructure will be a requirement for dedicated backup servers with Tape drives/Libraries attached and potential sales for HP OmniBack software .

  17. Today’s Corporate Enterprise Disk Array SAN Shared Library WAN Tape Library Backup Server Dedicated Backup LAN Admin Station Direct Attach Tape Unix NT Win 98 Netware DataBase Main Network LAN

  18. F M Tu W Th Full Any data loss. Yesterday's full backup needed F M Tu W Th Incremental All data losses require at least full backup tape Worst case is last full backup + all incrementals Differential F M Tu W Th All data losses require at least full backup tape. Worst case is last full backup + last differential Backup & Recovery Strategies You don’t need to do a full backup every night – use incremental or differential backups to reduce the time on after a full backup.

  19. Zero Downtime Backup SolutionsSAN Configuration Client network Database Servers Windows NT HP-UX (L,N,V class) Solaris FC Switch Tape Libraries Backup Servers HP-UX XP256 or XP512 NT Solaris

  20. Tape Drive Specs

  21. Automation Product Specs * = assumes native capacity

More Related