Spectra Logic — Cost-Effective Tape Libraries for Continuous Data Growth
Spectra Logic we define, design and deliver innovative data protection and backup solutions through tape backup and disk-based backup, recovery and archive storage solutions. By igniting innovation we challenge expectations of the data protection market with intelligent, integrated, and simple to use backup and archive technologies. Throughout our 30-plus-year history we have delivered high-density, feature rich storage with unmatched service and support to customers worldwide.
Spectra Logic is a founding member of the Active Archive Alliance. The Active Archive Alliance is a collaborative industry alliance formed to educate end user organizations on the evolving new technologies that enable reliable, online and efficient access to their archived data. The Active Archive Alliance was formed as the data storage industry is in need of a multi-vendor effort to ensure inter-compatibility, define best practices, and to educate on new trends and technologies that help organizations meet the myriad of data access and retention requirements imposed upon them.
Spectra Logic has been an ISO 9001 certified organization since 1998.
High-End User-Oriented Features
Spectra Logic products are changing the world of storage with these distinct features.
- Data Integrity Verification
Spectra T-Series are the only libraries available that address the concern of data integrity stored on tape. Spectra libraries confirm data integrity using an integrated, intelligent and comprehensive set of features that can verify that your data has been properly written to tape.
- LTO-5 (and soon LTO-6) Tape Drives
When combining LTO-5 tape drives and media with Spectra T-Series libraries, you not only get the latest advances in storage capacity, throughput and power consumption, but you also realize the greatest storage density and energy efficiency available in tape storage.
- TS1140 Technology Tape Drives
Fortune 500 and enterprise-class organizations face large scale data management challenges: effectively and efficiently managing aggressive electronic data growth while securely protecting data. To overcome these challenges, Spectra offers you an effective and efficient solution to address critical data growth—TS1140 Technology tape drives.
- Active Archive
Active Archive is a combined solution of open systems applications, disk and tape hardware that allows users to access all of their data, and gives you an effortless means to store and manage all of your data.
- Media Lifecycle Management
Spectra Logic’s Media Lifecycle Management (MLM) provides you with integrated, proactive media management to keep your tapes — and data — protected.
- Low Power Consumption
Spectra’s tape libraries use significantly less power than competing disk and tape products. Additionally, our tape libraries include BlueScale EnergyAudit software to monitor exactly how much power is being consumed.
- Encryption
Spectra Logic offers the only truly integrated encryption option for data backed up to tape and other removable media: BlueScale™ Encryption.
- Hardware Health Monitoring
BlueScale Hardware Health Monitoring (HHM) tracks key library components and notifies you when certain usage thresholds are met. These thresholds identify points at which the library logs and files should be reviewed by SpectraGuard Support to ensure the library is still functioning at optimal health.
- Remote Camera Monitoring
Observe and monitor the interior of your Spectra Logic library remotely with the web-based BlueScale Vision camera. The BlueScale Vision interface provides a full color display with zoom, pan, and tilt functionality for quick and easy access to see your internal library environment.
- TranScale Architecture
The TranScale architecture utilizes components that are interchangeable between our TranScale T-Series libraries, allowing you to seamlessly transform and scale (TranScale) your library as your organization grows.
- BlueScale Environment
BlueScale Environment is the software solution built into Spectra Logic products that enables the libraries and other backup products to work simply, flexibly, and safely with your data.
- Management Tools
Most Spectra libraries have a large and intuitive, color touch-screen interface. The same interface is also available remotely through the Remote Library Controller (RLC) that displays through any Web browser.
SpectraGuard Support Offerings.
SpectraGuard provides users with more comprehensive support options than any other secondary storage vendor 
today. Our expertise comes from over 25 years of company history with hands-on lab work and on-site training. Our support staff is cross-trained over the entire storage environment—not just hardware—so we are prepared to assist you with all data protection issues.
These are the SpectraGuard service options available to you. All come with guaranteed response time, not merely “target” times.
SpectraGuard Next Business Day
This service ensures you receive a replacement component as quickly as possible. Upon verification that the unit requires repair; a replacement unit will be shipped the same day for delivery the next business day.
SpectraGuard Next Business Day Onsite
With this service, a SpectraGuard representative will make a repair visit the following business day. This is a cost-effective choice for organizations that do not require immediate on-site assistance.
SpectraGuard Same Business Day Onsite
This option guarantees a four-hour on-site repair visit time Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. local time. This might be for you if your business requires rapid response throughout the business week, and less so on weekends and holidays.
SpectraGuard Four Hour Onsite
This is the highest-level service—a guaranteed four-hour onsite response guaranteed around the clock. It’s ideal for high-availability IT environments requiring uptime 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Assisted Self Maintenance (ASM)
Assisted Self-Maintenance (ASM) is an industry-first support supplement that is designed for customers that require minimal downtime. ASM allows for a select group of parts to be stocked at the customer’s site, in turn allowing the customer to make immediate repairs when needed, eliminating the delays that a site visit can involve.