>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:16:27 -0400, "Johnson, Milton" <milton.johnson AT 
>> CITI DOT COM> said:


> Why a VTL?  With us we found that when we out grew our physical
> library we would have to have to buy over 30 physical drives in
> order to be able to do backups, restores, cut off-site tapes and
> reclaim on/off site tapes in the time allowed.  That amounted to
> some serious money, more than our VTL costs.


I'm interested in the details on this.  The VTL is disk-only, or is it
tape backed?  I'm confused about how you need fewer tape-head-hours
when you virtualize processes.

- Allen S. Rout