XenData Announces LTO Archive Appliances with both File and S3 Object Storage Interfaces 

Hero image shows an example LTO Archive illustrating the X50 V3 Appliance managing a 2.1 PB LTO library which can be expanded to over 16 PB

XenData, the provider of cutting-edge data storage solutions, announces three appliances that archive to LTO tape libraries and can be accessed simultaneously as a single highly scalable file system and as S3 object storage. 

With the new XenData appliances, files and objects are equivalent. Like any file system, each file has a file name and a path. When it is treated as an S3 object, the object key – the official term for the name of an S3 object – consists of the same path and file name.

The appliances include a fast storage tier based on disk or SSD which provides write caching and intelligent pre-fetching for enhanced performance. They support most LTO library models, including from HPE, IBM, Qualstar, Quantum, Spectra Logic and Symply, providing nearline LTO capacities that scale to tens of PBs. Each appliance runs a Windows Server 2025 operating system and may be accessed as one or more SMB or NFS shares or as one or more S3 buckets using HTTPS. 

The characteristics of the three models are summarized below.

The appliances manage LTO-10 and earlier generation libraries to provide significantly lower cost per terabyte than traditional hard disk drives or enterprise flash storage. The systems are both cost-effective and energy efficient as LTO cartridges at rest consume no energy, cutting data center cooling and energy costs. 

In addition to cost savings, the appliances provide a high level of ransomware protection. Deleted and prior versions of files/objects are retained on LTO cartridges, and the appliances allow users to easily restore them. Dr Phil Storey, XenData CEO, commented, ” With our new appliances, we are bridging the gap between file-based applications and on-premises object storage. They provide cost-effective long-term storage that is easily used in both file system and object storage workflows.”

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