Since out current tape library is Spectralogic we are likely to look at their 
VTL/dedupe products first.

Dave

Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon

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You'll get performance, scalability, ease of use, and you can reduce the 
SLA for you physical tape library

Hawkins, Michael ha scritto:
> More drives... Lol. If your library can do it. Go VTL if you have a need for 
> very quick restores.  We had a L700 with 8 LTO 1's and went to a L500 with 6 
> LTO 3's. Shoulda upgraded the L700 instead.  L500's robot is molasses slow. 
> I'm gonna push to move back to the L700.   
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> Folks,
> 
> We are working on next year's budget.  I'm trying to figure out what sort of 
> upgrade to our current hardware we want to do.
> 
> Currently we are disk to tape to tape (clone).  We want to switch to a disk 
> to disk to tape setup to speed up backups and restores.
> 
> My thinking is along the lines of a VTL with de-duplication.
> 
> Does anyone have any comments on the subject?
> 
> Thanks, Dave
> 
> Dave Werth
> Garmin AT, Inc.
> Salem, Oregon
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