10 Essential Reasons to Step Up to Exabyte Tape Automation Today's businesses are storing more data than ever. This means more and more capacity, time and hassle to backup that data. Exabyte can help. As pioneers in tape automation for small-to-medium business (SMB), Exabyte has introduced a line of tape autoloaders ideally suited for SMB's.




What is a Tape Autoloader? A tape autoloader is a compact storage device usually containing only a single tape drive and up to 10 cartridge slots. Autoloaders provide automated backup and retrieval for a wide range of systems, from PC workgroups to networks. Here are 10 essential reasons to consider Stepping Up to Tape Automation: 1 Unattended Backups Save Time & Hassle With an Exabyte tape autoloader, simply schedule your backups utilizing your backup software a week or more in advance to run automatically and let the machine do the work for you. Schedule full or incremental backups, and even cleanings. And when your autoloader detects a tape is full, it automatically switches to the next designated tape to complete the backup, saving you the time to manually swap tapes by hand. You have the flexibility to set your backups to your own schedule. 2 A Slim Form Factor Saves Space Exabyte autoloaders are easily rack mountable and the rack kit is included on all Exabyte autoloaders. A slim 1U or 2U profile saves valuable rack space and easy to manage or remove if needed. 3 No More Spanning Tapes Manually Those servers are getting bigger and bigger. The average server disk size is over 133 GB. This means that to backup a single server several tapes may be needed, depending on the backup schedule. And that's just for one server! Tape automation takes care of this problem by automatically switching tapes once the tape is full, and then resuming the backup. All of this can happen at night while the network is quiet and while you are sleeping. 4 Reduced Management Costs Tape automation allows you to concentrate on other priorities without the worry and cost of juggling stand- alone tape drives on the network. This saves time and hassle. Essentially, a tape autoloader is a work force multiplier; a single unit designed to do the tasks of many. 5 Room to Grow Autoloaders provide more room to grow than a single tape drive. When one tape is full, the autoloader will roll over to the next tape to complete the backup allowing you to easily expand your backup capacity as your storage needs grow.  With three tape capacities available on VXA autoloaders, you choose the capac- ity you need now, and easily expand as your capacity needs grow just choose a larger tape capacity. 6 ExaBotics All Exabyte tape autoloaders feature ExaBotics patented robotics designed to offer superior engineer- ing, quality and reliability. ExaBotics means you can enjoy peace of mind that the very best mechanical systems, engineering and testing have been utilized on every Exabyte autoloader. continued on Page 2 Tape automation saves time, hassle and reduces man- agement costs by simplifying daily tape backups. w w w . e x a b y t e . c o m