The HPC market accounts for about 18 percent of the company's business, and the media and entertainment sector something in the high 20 percent range, she said.
#Spectra logic full#
(That doesn't mean they have the full cartridge capacity in these machines.) General IT customers and companies in the media and entertainment sector tend to drive higher volumes of smaller products for Spectra, Rector explained. No one has bought such a behemoth tape library yet, but Spectra chief marketing officer Molly Rector said at the conference that the company has sold exabyte-capable systems into single organizations already. With a full complement of 960 drives, this library complex can sustain 2.2 PB per hour of bandwidth into or out of the drives. If that is not big enough for you, then Spectra can make what it calls a T-Finity library complex, which hooks together eight of the T-Finity frames to create a truly immense storage device with 16 robots, 320 frames, and capable of storing 3.6 EB (that's exabytes) of capacity using TS1140 drives. Thompson told EnterpriseTech that a 40-frame T-Finity would cost somewhere between $800,000 and $1 million at list price, and depending on the drive and media types used, a fully loaded machine with 120 drives and all of its media bays full would have a list price of between $4 million and $6 million. But once the data is located, it can stream out of the tape at a sustained data rate that is as good or better than any disk drive can do. Video data, for instance, cannot be compressed.) It takes anywhere from 20 to 80 seconds to get a tape from a shelf, depending on where it is in relation to the two robots inside the enclosure, and another minute and a half or so for the tape cartridge to be mounted and start searching for data.
(LTO-5 gives something around 2 to 1 compression for data that can be compressed, and the TS1140 is closer to 3 to 1. The library scales up to 40 frames with a maximum of 120 drives, for a total capacity of 50,100 cartridges for a maximum capacity of 125 PB of uncompressed data and something on the order of 313 PB assuming the 2.5 to 1 compression ratio for LTO-6 drives. The T-Finity frame can hold a maximum of 24 tape drives, with multiple robots to keep them fed. Nathan Thompson, CEO of Spectra Logic, with the T-Finity tape library During a tour this week at Spectra headquarters outside of Denver, which was a hotbed of disk and tape storage for many decades, Thompson showed off the top-of-the-line T-Finity tape library, which is a complete beast: In fact, says Thompson, about 80 percent of the developers who work at Spectra are creating software, not designing hardware.
#Spectra logic software#
The company does not make its own tape drives – it resells LTO and TS1140 tape drives manufactured by IBM – but it does design and make its own libraries as well as creating the software to manage the storage devices. This allows Spectra to command a premium for the media it supplies to customers while also providing a service for that premium. It also is a reseller of the tape cartridges that populate the libraries, and interestingly it gives a lifetime warranty for those cartridges. Spectra doesn't just sell tape libraries. To make that point at the Forever Data 2013 summit that Spectra hosted in Denver, Colorado this week, founder and CEO Nathan Thompson gave out some financial figures about the privately held company. Tape library supplier Spectra Logic is bucking this trend, and it is doing so by listening very carefully to its customers. The Spectra team has been both flexible and resilient over these many months! We are grateful for the hard work of our staff, and appreciate how they have overcome the challenges presented to the world in 2020.If you listen to the quarterly conference calls of the big IT suppliers who play in the tape market, as we at EnterpriseTech do, invariably you hear them bemoan the fact that their tape storage businesses are on the decline. Our company quickly adapted to this distributed work environment, providing tools and support to accommodate any location. While we are abiding by the guidance from Colorado' s Governor to minimize the number of people in any building, we have room for those who need to be onsite. All our employees are working at full speed (and full pay) from whichever location best suits their needs. Those who can work remotely are doing so, both near and far. Those essential to these processes who cannot work remotely have been protected via social distancing, masks, increased cleaning of facilities, and rearrangement of work areas to keep our teams safe. As an essential employer providing needed infrastructure to industry, Spectra Logic has not missed a beat in selling, manufacturing, and shipping product.
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