But ADIC may also be hoping to avoid leaving money on the table -- or losing deals altogether -- in situations where customers are considering adopting disk-based backup.
For example, this week Compagnie Gnérale de Géophysique (CGG), a French oil exploration firm, announced that it plans to redeploy its ADIC tape autoloaders, which the company has used to store 3 petabytes of seismic images, and instead use low-cost ATA disk storage systems from LSI Logic Storage Systems Inc. for its primary storage (see LSI Wins Gigantesque Deal).
Another ADIC customer, EarthLink Inc., is also considering putting in ATA storage to supplement its tape backup. Ron Williams, senior manager of infrastructure operations at EarthLink, says ADIC's disk option probably wouldn't suit his company's particular needs but adds that it might be attractive to those with smaller storage environments.
"For bigger shops like ours that have a big investment in SANs, it's probably better to keep [low-cost disk] as a separate tier," he says. "But for shops with one tier of storage, I do think it makes sense to integrate disk with the tape, because administration is going to be a lot easier."
Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch
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