![]() Data is staged to a disk cache, also part of the previously mentioned Hitachi HUS-VM system, and gives the user the ability to store to tape through a NAS-like NFS interface. The QStar clustered servers provide an active / passive configuration as deployed by the University of Oslo. This extreme capacity can be stored without giving up the industry’s leading density and ease of management that are hallmarks of Spectra enterprise libraries. T-Finity also easily incrementally scales to 3.6 exabytes of compressed capacity with TS1140 technology tape drives. To help the University of Oslo preserve their data, T-Finity offers a sophisticated suite of standard Data Integrity Verification features that allow them to actively check data already written to tape. T-Finity redefines what customers should expect from modern tape archive and backup solutions, with unmatched features and significant CapEx and OpEx savings. The award-winning Spectra Logic T-Finity has a modern design that offers industry-leading scalability with the performance necessary to meet the requirements of the most data-intensive environments in the world. For us, data preservation and bit corruption detection and correction are critical and the combination of Hitachi, QStar and Spectra Logic has allowed us to tick these boxes while remaining within budget.” Oftedal added, “The Spectra Logic T-Finity tape library gives us up to 4 PB of capacity initially, and we expect this to be quickly allocated. – 3.6 PB capacity (of which 3 PB for NorStore) – Three frame configuration and 918 slots – Everything including management delivered in only 9 racks – 1 cluster of High Performance NAS (HNAS 3090) with two nodes initially – 4 Hitachi Unified Storage VM Controllers Hitachi Data Systems Unified Storage and High Performance NAS systems:.The installation process and setup were straight forward and had only negligible impact on daily operations. The Spectra Logic T-Finity library and QStar Archive Manager have saved us on several fronts including development and financial costs.” Lars Oftedal, IT director at the university, explained the selection process, “We looked at several bids but found that the Spectra Logic and QStar solution would not only meet all our initial criteria but also provide compatibility with iRODS*. The University needed a new storage infrastructure that would offer a high degree of consolidation, management centralization, performance and flexibility, as well as scalability, within its budget constraints. Furthermore, the unrelenting growth in data from scientific activities was putting additional pressure on the aging system. ![]() The system comprised of solutions that, as time passed, ran older architectures that were challenging and costly to run due to vendor fragmentation, expiring support contracts, frequent hardware failures and expensive and impractical offline requirements for routine maintenance. USIT staff was finding that the capacity and flexibility of the legacy storage no longer met the University’s requirements for the NorStore project. The university has over 27,000 students and 5,900 staff and the University Center for Information Technology Services (USIT) employs over 250 people to support its IT infrastructure, which includes 12,000 Windows PCs, 1,500 Mac clients, 1,000 Linux clients, 300 Windows servers, 1,500 Unix/Linux servers and associated systems such as SANs and backup applications. Financed by the Research Council of Norway and the participating centers, the infrastructure must provide easy and secure access to distributed storage resources, facilitate the creation and use of digital scientific repositories, provide large aggregate capacities for storage and data transfer, and optimize the utilization of the overall storage capacity.įounded in 1811, the University of Oslo is Norway’s largest and oldest institution of higher education. NorStore is a Norwegian national data storage project designed to provide the Norwegian research community from all universities, university colleges and research organizations with a centralized storage infrastructure, hosted by the University of Oslo. With a requirement for 24/7, easy access to large volumes of scientific data, storage reliability is paramount to the University. London, UK, 4th December 2013, Spectra Logic, an innovator in backup, data recovery and archive, and QStar Technologies, a leading global provider of enterprise-class data management and archive software, today announced that the University of Oslo has selected a Spectra Logic T-Finity coupled with QStar’s Archive Manager 6.0 to upgrade its storage systems as part of the NorStore project, where the country’s research community benefits from a government-funded storage infrastructure.
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