Quantum’s Scalari500 is the intelligent tape library platform that gives growing midrange storage environments faster, easier, and more reliable data protection. The Scalar i500 combines modular design with continuous robotics to provide industry-leading scalability, performance, and reliability.

• Intelligent tape library management with the integrated iLayer management software
• Proactive monitoring and remote diagnostics can reduce service calls by 50% and shorten resolution time by 30%
• Combines flexible, modular architecture with a single, continuous robotics system for enhanced scalability, performance, and reliability
• Streamlined expansion and capacity-on-demand growth lets library easily expand with data
• Native SMI-S support allows direct management by leading SRM tools, including EMC® ControlCenter™
• Designed to integrate easily with leading disk backup solutions

The integrated iLayer management software makes backups easier to manage and gives users more control over the process. Its proactive monitoring and remote diagnostics can reduce service calls by 50% and shorten issue resolution times by 30%. Its capacity-on-demand scalability lets it grow non-disruptively with users' data. And the Scalar i500 is designed to integrate easily with disk backup making it the perfect library for next-generation backup architectures. With the Scalari500, IT managers can be assured they will have reliable, high-performance backup, certain restores, and effective long term protection for years into the future, no matter how their storage needs evolve.

The Scalar i500 management features were designed with midrange backup needs in mind. Its user-friendly setup wizards make it simple to install. Its partitioning, remote monitoring, and automated diagnostics make it easy to operate and maintain. And its native support for Storage Resource Management (SRM) tools using the SMI-S interface standard means users can include Scalar i500 libraries, even those in remote locations, within their managed storage environments along with their disk and fabric resources.

The Scalar i500 offers industry-leading RAS features designed to meet the availability requirements of the most demanding midrange data centers. Hot swap drives are standard on all models. A full 2N power option protects the library and all drives from any single point of failure in the power system. The library's capacity-on-demand scalability provides non-disruptive growth, its flexible design makes it easy for users to add new modules, and its single, continuous robotics system provides fast, reliable cartridge transfer under the widest possible range of conditions.

To protect and secure your valuable data, Quantum Encryption Key Manager (Q-EKM) can be enabled on the Scalari500 to provide administrators with a solution to encrypt backup data written to LTO-4 tapes. Q-EKM is an enterprise proven, easy-to-use, solution for managing encryption keys across multiple Quantum libraries. The Q-EKM application operates out of the data path for maximum flexibility and performance to manage the encryption keys used as part of the LTO-4 drive-based data encryption process. More information on Q-EKM can be found by downloading the Q-EKM data sheet.

The Scalar i500 combines modular scalability with single-robotics simplicity, reliability and performance.

Monitor and manage your entire data protection environment from a single window
Quantum Vision™ software enables simplified management of Quantum DXi™ disk-based backup systems and Scalar® tape libraries -- whether you have one system or many, Vision software enables you to plan for upgrades while maximizing resources by providing detailed performance, replication, status and capacity information. Vision also has the capability to launch into the native GUI’s of your Quantum disk and tape devices, providing a consolidated management view. With increased complexity and a multitude of technologies being used in most data centers, combined with more data to protect, a simple management tool, such as Quantum’s Vision software can streamline the backup process.

The i500 comes with a one-year warranty enhanced with service options. It is supported by Quantum’s StorageCare™ service approach that extends remote diagnostics to the storage ecosystem.