B and L Associates is a worldwide leader in providing automated systems backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage operations tools for the legacy systems marketplace. Our newest product is Vertices, a comprehensive backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage system (MMS) for the open systems market. With Vertices, we leverage our vast experience in legacy-class backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage to create scalable solutions for all your media-tracking needs. Vertices is a media management system (MMS) that stores, moves, tracks, and protects your data center's media. With Vertices, you gain control over any media resource, from DLTs to CDs and DATs. Vertices backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage identifies what is on those media, when you acquired the data, how long you should keep the data, when you should replace the media - all the information you need to comprehensively manage your media library and to protect its contents. Vertices unifies all your backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage locations into a centralized database. It bars unauthorized access to your media records. And Vertices prevents the inadvertent or premature purging of media. Vertices is an integrated, easy-to-use backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage software solution for your media-tracking needs. Our Vertices software handles information about all your removable media and mission-critical data, no matter where you generate those data or where you store them. Using the backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage information it captures, Vertices then directs the actions you take to handle and control the physical media. Vertices can even be integrated with your open systems backup solution to automatically log your backup media, giving you greater control and assuring the most accurate backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage information. Vertices allows you to track media from primary storage to supplemental storage to offsite facilities and back. It allows you to set backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage retention periods by time, by number of copies, by ad-hoc designation, or by a combination of those options. It provides reports on every detail of its backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage activities, and on every segment of data you store on your media. It tells you where to store media, when to move them, when to recycle them, when to replace them. With Vertices you attain maximum control over your backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage while reducing resource costs and enhancing the data center's responses to information requests. From backup tape management, media management systems, off-site tape storage tracking mechanisms to automated logging to vault management to variable retentions, Vertices offers more features and better solutions to your media-management needs than any other open-systems products.