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RBC Financial Group Deposits Substantial Labor-Hour Savings to Improve ROI

Overview RBC Financial Group needed a reliable solution to the automated tape library problem that it had been facing. The new solution had to have high scalability and sufficient capacity to meet corporate needs for the next five years. To meet these requirements RBC Financial Group phased out its older automated cartridge systems by replacing them with seven PowderHorn 9310s. It also replaced the less reliable tape drives with 240 T9840 tape drives. The organization also deployed six Virtual Storage Managers (VSMs) to replace the decade-old automated tape libraries. The organization uses the VSMs to manage information across its lifecycle.

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Publisher	StorageTek, Storage Technology Corporation	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	May 2004	Downloads	1
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Tape Drives - Libraries, Storage Management

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