British Antarctic Survey Protects Large Volumes of Research Data at Sea with Quantum
British Antarctic Survey Protects Large Volumes of Research Data at Sea with Quantum Quantum Tape Systems Safeguard Data Collected at Earth's Poles on a Custom-Built Research Vessel |
[22-October-2020] |
SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Quantum Corp. (NASDAQ: QMCO), a global leader in unstructured data and video solutions, today announced that British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is implementing Quantum Scalar® i3 tape libraries on the brand-new RRS Sir David Attenborough research vessel to back up vital scientific data collected at the Earth's poles. The tape libraries provide scalability for large data volumes, minimize the storage footprint on a space-constrained ship, and facilitate easy transport of data back to the organization's UK office. "The Scalar i3 library allows us to have the library and server blade in one box. We can just plug it into the network and go from there," says Jeremy Robst, IT support engineer for the British Antarctic Survey. Planning a Data Backup Solution for a New Research Vessel The BAS IT team needed to implement all the necessary information technology for the ship's research "cruises," which typically last between six weeks and two months. Providing sufficient data storage and backup capacity was a top priority. "We estimated that researchers would produce roughly two orders of magnitude more data than on our previous vessel," says Robst. "That might mean anywhere from 10 to 100 TB during a single research cruise. We had to supply storage and backup equipment that could handle that data." Protecting Large Data Volumes with Quantum Scalar Tape Systems The IT team is implementing two Scalar i3 libraries on the Sir David Attenborough. One supports the Veeam® software used for daily backups from disk storage. The other library uses a Scalar linear tape file system (LTFS), which supports file-system operations. Gaining Compact Storage with LTO-8 Preparing for the Maiden Voyage Additional Resources
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