Spectra Logic Celebrates 10th Consecutive Year of Profitability

Spectra Logic has had its tenth consecutive year of profitability at the close of calendar year 2016. Spectra Logic’s success is rooted in investing in research and development (R&D) to build and improve its archive solutions, creating tailored solutions for key verticals that incorporate software and hardware to solve customer workflow and management issues, and focusing on digital preservation that protects customer data forever, while minimizing impact on business processes.

Tape’s technological advancements strengthened greatly in 2016, with enhancements in capacity, roadmap, density and data integrity. Spectra solutions saw many improvements, including:

• Spectra enterprise tape libraries are 160% faster and at least 400 percent more reliable, are performing with 100 percent uptime, and use less power than previous models. Tape drive roadmaps are now doubling in capacity every two years, providing the most cost-effective data storage solution available with up to 10 times more storage capacity for the cost of equivalent disk systems.

• The Spectra Trinity ExaScale Tape Library with the world’s highest capacity was introduced and is the only tape library system to support all three tape drive technologies. Today, the TFinity ExaScale, Spectra T950 and Spectra T380 Tape Libraries are all compatible with LTO, IBM TS1140 and TS1150, and Oracle’s StorageTek T10000x Tape Technology.
• The Spectra BlackPearl Deep Storage Gateway, an S3 gateway to tape solutions, bridges modern object storage with the cost effectiveness, longevity and portability of tape.
• In 2016, Spectra Logic introduced nine new products or major integrations, and 12 patents were issued to the company.

“Spectra Logic prospers through its assured stance that all roads lead to tape, as tape libraries are the ideal choice for deep storage environments,” says Fred Moore, President, Horison Strategies. “Tape-based solutions will continue to be the prime platform for storage and archive of large data sets—particularly in high-performance computing (HPC) and cloud provider environments. No other vendor except for Spectra has the level of commitment or breadth of entry-level to enterprise-class tape library offerings.”

As digital data sets grow at an astounding pace, and require longer retention periods, businesses continue to deploy tape broadly. Simultaneously, organizations in every market are demanding on-premise, long-term storage and archive. Spectra Logic again recorded significant increases in bookings year-over-year across its key vertical industries, including government, HPC, media and entertainment, video surveillance and public cloud infrastructure.

“The storage industry is in the midst of a growth period in scale-out storage adoption and object storage implementation. Meanwhile, customers are also seeking exceptional archive solutions for long-term digital preservation and data protection,” says Nathan Thompson, Spectra Logic’s CEO. “Spectra is responding to these market needs with a vertical market solution approach coupled with continuous product innovation to ensure the delivery of scalable solutions that satisfy customer requirements,”