The Pathlight VX option, which mounts in a standard 19-inch rack, is able to back up and restore data at 1 Tbyte an hour. The typical target customer will have a primary data set to back up of 2 to 3 Tbytes per day, Hein says.
However, ADIC's disk option -- scheduled to be available beginning in December 2003 -- will carry a starting list price of $190,000 for 10 Tbytes. While Hein acknowledges that it's priced for high-end customers with high throughput needs, he also points out that high-end disk-backup systems from Network Appliance Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP) and EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC) are in the same ballpark.
"We're trying to address the enterprise-class customer," he says.
ADIC based the disk backup option on technology developed by V-Stor, a small tape virtualization company it acquired in May 2002 for an undisclosed sum (see ADIC Buys Virtual Tape Startup).
The Pathlight VX provides RAID 5 redundancy and 2-Gbit/s Fibre Channel connectivity. The tape export functions will initially support only LTO-1 or LTO-2 drives, though the company says future versions will support additional formats.
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