Upgrading to a StorageTek PowderHorn 9310 automated cartridge system to scale up from a previous version of the automated tape system, while maintaining their previous investment. When choosing to upgrade their data center, the UCI opted again for a StorageTek data storage system. They chose the StorageTek PowderHorn 9310 automated cartridge system an upgrade from the StorageTek 4410 tape library that was installed at the UCI site in 1989. UCIs new 9310 storage system uses StorageTek TimberLine 9490 EETape, guaranteeing UCI faster access times, higher reliability and an 18 TB storage capacity. The flexibility of the PowderHorn system is crucial for UCI, as the storage system needs to be available 24 hours a day.
Information is key to doing business in today's world.
For scientific organizations like the Catholic University and the University Hospital in the Dutch city of Nijmegen, information is critical. In 1989, UCI needed a solution for central storage and management of the business critical data in the mainframe systems of its clients. Other vendors tried to adapt industry robots for tape handling. StorageTek was the only vendor that could offer a robotic tape management system specifically designed for that purpose. We expected to use the complete data storage system for a maximum of six years, but the performance of this system continues to impress us and we have been using it for ten years.