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The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Modular Library (EML) E-Series Tape Libraries provide performance, reliability and investment protection for your data protection needs. With up to 16 HP StorageWorks Ultrium tape drives, the EML E-Series boasts native throughput of over 4.6 TB/hr. Based on the HP StorageWorks Extended Tape Library Architecture (ETLA), controllers between the SAN and the tape drives regulate traffic and help to ensure that rogue I/O requests do not interrupt the backup or recovery job in progress. Additionally, the hardware itself is very reliable, designed for 24x7 environments. Investment protection is achieved through the ability to scale up, out and through time. Through the addition of expansion modules, the EML library scales to 16 drives and over 440 slots. Future expansion modules will allow the EML E-Series to scale beyond 500 slots within the library footprint.
Unattended backup that frees up your IT resources and minimises the risk of human error: sophisticated solutions for direct-attach to servers, over-the-network backup, and SAN environments; wide choice of technologies; capacities up to 284 TB native
Tape drives make backup : Fast - Speed is critical because your data is constantly growing while the time available for backup is shrinking. Even the slowest tape drive writes 1 MB per second and the fastest 30 MB per second - that means a 200 GB backup can be completed in less than two hours. Easy - Unlike other storage methods, tape drives offer a range of media that allows you to back up all the data on a small to medium-sized server - up to 200 GB - on a single cartridge. And tape backup captures your system setup information, as well as your data, allowing you to restore your entire system when disaster strikes. What's more, your software can schedule backups to happen automatically at the time most convenient for you. Affordable - Per gigabyte of storage, tape is the most cost-effective way to store large amounts of data. The compact size of tape cartridges also helps keep down your storage costs.

• Scalable capacity from 103 slots to over 500 slots

• Scalable performance up to 16 Ultrium tape drives with 442 slots

• Interface controllers protect tape drives from SAN events

• Remote Management via Command View for tape libraries software or the command line interface

• Easy-to-use Touch-screen Graphical User Interface

• User configurable load ports with removable magazines

• Certified under the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS)

• HP Ultrium 460-FC or Ultrium 960-FC Tape drives

• Built in a rack

• 2,000,000 Mean Swaps Between failure