Page 18 of 18 Conclusion March 2001 © Copyright 2001 by Exabyte Corporation. All rights reserved. Exabyte, Exabyte Recognition System, Exafacts, Exapak, Exasoft, Exatape, and Strategex are U.S. registered trademarks of Exabyte Corporation. Eliant, M2, MammothTape, NetStorM, SmartClean, and SupportSuite are U.S. trademarks of Exabyte Corporation. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The native Fibre Channel interface in Exabyte’s Fibre Channel libraries enhances their cost-effectiveness, reliability, and throughput. Library capacity and performance can be expanded by simply adding new drives, without the configuration and performance constraints of an external SCSI-to-Fibre Channel bridge. By eliminating the cost of purchasing and implementing a bridge, these libraries lower the total cost of ownership for setting up a SAN. Including support for the E-copy command in the M2 tape drive firmware makes these libraries ideal for use in SANs that implement the new serverless approach to performing backups. Conclusion A fast, reliable interface for transporting large volumes of information between desktop workstations, mass storage subsystems, peripherals, and host systems within a campus-sized area is an essential element in today’s fast-moving computing environment. Interfaces based on dedicated bus interfaces or traditional networks have shortcomings that make them unsuited to the task. Fibre Channel combines the benefits of both bus and network technologies into a single standard interface. Exabyte continues to show leadership in the tape drive and tape library industry by being the first company to integrate a native Fibre Channel interface into midrange tape drives and libraries. The native Fibre Channel interface increases reliability and data integrity by eliminating the SCSI-to-Fibre Channel bridge, a costly, difficult to configure component. Using native Fibre Channel tape drives and libraries makes moving data storage and backup operations from the LAN to the SAN much more easy and cost-effective. The native FIbre Channel interface and firmware implementation of the E-copy command make Exabyte’s native Fibre Channel libraries with M2 ideal for use in SANs that implement serverless backups. p1   p2   p3   p4   p5   p6   p7   p8   p9   p10   p11   p12   p13   p14   p15   p16   p17   p18