I pulled the following from
http://www.storage.ibm.com/press/tape/magstar/990922.htm
Testing confirms IBM Magstar tape drive top
performer in commercial IT environment
McDonald's Corp. is "50,000th served" as IBM ships more
high-end, high-capacity drives than closest storage
competitor
SAN JOSE, Calif. ... Sept. 22, 1999 Competitive testing
has established
that the Magstar 3590 tape drive is the top performer in
the commercial IT
environment, with the fastest effective data rate and
highest levels of data
compression of any tape drive in this market.
Test results showed that both IBM Magstar 3590 B and E
models
consistently outperformed the leading competitive
product and tested up to
73% faster in writing compressed data onto tape. This
translates directly
into the fastest data backup times for customers.
IBM also announced today that it has reached a storage
industry milestone,
shipping more Magstar 3590 tape drives than any other
competitive product
in the high-end, high-capacity tape drive market. IBM
celebrates this
significant achievement with McDonald's Corp., which
received IBM's
50,000th Magstar drive last week at the corporate
headquarters' storage
enterprise.
"McDonald's is delighted to become IBM's '50,000th
served," said Chris
Millington, Vice President and Chief Technical Officer,
McDonald's Corp.,
Oakbrook, IL. "We've been relying on IBM Magstar tape
drives to back up
and restore our corporate information for several years
now because of their
high capacity and reliability. We've continued to expand
our investment in
Magstar drives and tape libraries because IBM continues
to lead the field
with superior performance and capacity."
McDonald's currently uses its 23 Magstar drives and two
10-frame Magstar
3494 tape libraries to back up its large distributed
environment of NT servers
through an MVS enterprise server that uses ADSM storage
management
software.
"Magstar has become the dominant drive across mainframe
and high-end
server environments because companies know they can back
up and restore
data more quickly, and give their users 24x7
availability to data and
applications," said Barry Rudolph, business line
manager, Removable Media
Storage Solutions (RMSS), IBM Storage Systems Division.
"Today's test
results not only validate what we hear from our
customers, they explain why
Magstar has become the worldwide de facto standard for
high performance
and reliability."
IBM Magstar 3590 shipments have averaged 1,000/month
since the product
was introduced in Sept. 1995. However, due to increased
market demand in
1999, IBM is projecting a significant upsweep in volume.
Test Procedures and Results
IBM Magstar 3590 B and E models, and StorageTek 9840
tape drives were
tested in identical environments..2 Ten data types that
represent a
cross-section of real-world customer data were used in
testing. Examples
include data from earth resource satellite observations,
raw data from a
nuclear reactor, telephone billing data, data from
atmospheric research,
passenger transaction data from an airline and wind
tunnel test data from an
aeronautic and space research organization.
Test results unequivocally proved that both the current
Magstar 3590 B
model and the latest E model (released May 14)
consistently outperformed
the competing product, at an average data rate of 34.3
MB/sec. versus 19.8
MB/sec..
Testing also determined that, when storing data on a
cartridge using the
same data, Magstar achieved an average of 3:1 data
compression,
compared to 2.9:1 on the competitive product, which has
been touted as
significantly higher in public materials. High data
compression ratios allow
customers to store more data on a single cartridge, thus
reducing hardware
and management costs, and use of costly IT floorspace.
For a copy of the IBM Magstar 3590 white paper, or more
information about
RMSS products and IBM Storage, visit
www.ibm.com/storage.
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industry-leading software and hardware storage products
available today.
These storage solutions are designed for both IBM and
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and are offered through IBM, as well as a large network
of IBM Business
Partners. A selection of the products, including
industry-leading hard disk
drives, is available for use by Original Equipment
Manufacturers (OEMs).
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