Plasmon, the market leader for professional data archival solutions, today announced that IBM i5/OS provides native support for 30GB Ultra Density Optical (UDO) technology in Plasmon G-Series for IBM OS/400 optical libraries.
With UDO library storage capacities ranging from 720GB to over 19TB, this increases capacities by more than six-fold compared to previous generation 5.2GB IBM Magneto Optical (MO) libraries. The Plasmon G-Series for IBM OS/400 libraries "powered by UDO" are supported by iSeries V5R3 via PTF software upgrades.
According to David DuPont, Vice-President of Marketing for Plasmon: "Designed for organisations seeking secure retention of important information, UDO has broken the mould for professional optical storage solutions in terms of increased storage capacity and dramatically lower archival storage costs. Combining these attributes with fast access and durability have made UDO an excellent fit for organisations striving to meet compliance requirements, better defend themselves against litigation, and make overall better use of their information resources.
"With respect to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in particular, UDO fully complies with the Act`s requirements for data authenticity and accessibility. "
He continues: "UDO`s benefits have led the three largest computer vendors, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell, the main optical library vendors, (representing 97% of the market), to support it; to offer it in their libraries; and ISO to ratify it as a new standard."
"IBM is pleased to team with Plasmon to bring our eServer iSeries customers greatly increased archival storage capacities. As our iSeries users` archiving needs continue to grow, UDO provides very compelling advantages such as true WORM data unalterability, rapid file access and low total cost of ownership," said John Reed, Director of iSeries Product Management, IBM.
"There are thousands of IBM iSeries customers already using optical storage for business-critical applications. The addition of UDO support provides these existing and new users with a very clear and cost-effective roadmap for the future," said Christopher Harris, President of Plasmon. "This level of commitment from both IBM and Plasmon is extremely important to companies developing long-term archival storage strategies."
UDO, which features blue laser recording rather than the red lasers used in previous optical drives such as MO and DVD, achieves far greater data densities, resulting in dramatically higher media capacities. The Plasmon UDO libraries contain a broad range of fully populated capacities ranging from 218GB to over 19TB.
UDO will be introduced at 60GB and 120GB media capacities over the next four years. Total cost of ownership (TCO) is about one-fifth the cost of previous generation MO, much lower than competitive hard drive-based compliance solutions and very attractive when compared to tape offerings. The full analysis is available at http://www.iis.co.za/WPapers_form.htm.
The Phase Change recording technology used by UDO is field-proven and highly stable. With true write once authenticity and a media life of 50+ years, UDO meets the most demanding requirements of regulatory agencies and other authorities for the secure, long-term storage of information.
UDO features blue lasers for recording rather than the red lasers used in previous optical drives such as MO, CD and DVD. Blue lasers achieve far greater data densities, resulting in dramatically higher media capacities. First generation UDO products have a capacity of 30GB, with a roadmap extending to 120GB by the third generation. The densities achieved through blue lasers allow UDO to be priced at $2.00/GB1 in the first generation, one-fifth the price of MO media.
The Phase Change recording technology used by UDO is field-proven and highly stable. With absolute authenticity and a media life of 50+ years, UDO meets the most demanding requirements of regulatory agencies and other authorities for the secure, long-term storage of information.
Says Alan Leader, CEO of Johannesburg-based optical storage specialist, Inside Information Systems: "In addition to eliminating the need for additional library management software, IBM`s native iSeries operating system support for UDO provides flexible, scaleable and regulatory compliant optical storage for applications such as document and record management.
"In addition, since G-Series for IBM OS/400 libraries support simultaneous use of 9.1GB MO and 30GB UDO in the same library this eases the transition from the older Magneto Optical technology over to the new UDO standard."
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