Empark Has Selected Spectra Logic

Spectra Logic Corporation announced that
Empark, a car parking solutions firm, has selected a its T50e tape library
to upgrade its storage of data while improving efficiency, reliability and
security.

With over 3,000 employees and offices in Andorra, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and
the UK, Empark manages nearly 400,000 parking spaces in 164 cities and has
approximately 3TB of information to protect and keep accessible around the
clock. For example, some of its databases receive parking fine details at any
time during the day or night and this data needs to be available 24/7 to
council operators. The corresponding payment details are also stored on
Empark’s IT systems.

"We wanted to improve consistency of
service as the legacy storage systems we had been using were becoming
unreliable and giving us continuous problems with robotic arms and other
hardware," said systems department director, Antonio Angel Ortega
Fernández. "We wanted a robust
solution that would allow us to consolidate and centralise our backups. Having
tested several alternatives we quickly saw that Spectra Logic’s T50e library
offered the highest degree of functionality and ease of use, all within our
limited budget."

After working with other products whose reliability was becoming a potential
issue, Empark decided to upgrade its storage infrastructure to increase its
capacity, flexibility, performance, scalability and reliability. The IT team,
led by Ortega Fernández, reviewed a number of options and eventually chose
T50e tape library. With LTO tape technology,
library management functionality and increased security through the integrated
BlueScale Encryption, this tape library met Empark’s selection criteria.

The T50e provides the versatility and performance Empark was looking for as
explained by Molly Rector, Spectra Logic’s EVP of product management and WW
Marketing: "The T50e scales up to an
impressive 560MB/s throughput and 75TB native capacity. In addition it is
compatible with all major backup software offerings, operating systems and
platforms, making it a clear winner for organisations wanting to centralise
their backups."

Since being installed, the tape library is proving its worth in terms
of reliability as confirmed by Emparks’ technology and infrastructure manager,
Ivan Campos Muñoz: "I need to spend
very little time on the management and administration of the T50e, no more than
20 minutes a week. Even library or drive firmware upgrades only take about one
hour every six months or so. This is a vast improvement on how we were
operating before switching to Spectra Logic, as we now have time to concentrate
on developing our business."