Spectra Logic Enables Scalable Data Preservation at Edinburgh International Data Facility 

BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 15, 2022 -- Spectra Logic, a global leader in data management and data storage solutions, today announced that its customer, EPCC, has deployed two four-frame Spectra TFinity ExaScale Tape Libraries with LTO-8 tape drives and media to provide long-term archive and storage resources for the Edinburgh International Data Facility’s full range of data services.

Built and operated by EPCC, the UK’s leading center of supercomputing and data science expertise at the University of Edinburgh, EIDF provides the computational and data services and IT infrastructure that underpins the Data-Driven Innovation (DDI) Programme, a cluster of innovation hubs that bring many disciplines together between industry, the public sector, and academia, to solve real-world problems.

To meet their long-term storage strategy and accommodate their data-driven research services, which include private cloud compute, data management, safe haven services, and large-scale AI projects, EIDF chose a joint storage solution from Spectra Logic and HPE.

The scalable solution enables the facility to be as agile and responsive as possible to the needs of its many stakeholders. Two Spectra TFinity Tape Libraries deliver scalable, reliable and adaptable data storage and archiving, including 20 petabytes of cold storage capacity that is being used for many EIDF projects, such as COVID-19 research at the University of Edinburgh. In addition, HPE Data Management Framework software delivers hierarchical, tiered storage management to the TFinity tape Libraries.

“With the help of Spectra Logic, we are creating what we believe is the only facility of its kind in Europe focused on delivering data-driven regional growth,” said Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC. “Spectra’s TFinity Tape Library is uniquely positioned to provide the scalable infrastructure for our long-term archive and storage services offered at the EIDF. It builds on the great long-term relationship we’ve had with Spectra.”

For more information about Spectra’s customers, EPCC and the Edinburgh International Data Facility, read the case study here.

 About Spectra Logic

Spectra Logic develops a full range of data management and data storage solutions for a multi-cloud world. Dedicated solely to data storage innovation for more than 40 years, Spectra Logic helps organizations modernize their IT infrastructures and protect their data with a broad portfolio of solutions that enable them to manage, migrate, store and preserve business data long-term, along with features to make them ransomware resilient, whether on-premises, in a single cloud, across multiple clouds, or in all locations at once. To learn more, visit www.spectralogic.com.

Source: Spectra Logic