Tape Management via Vertices from B and L Associates specialists in media management and data backup solutions.
Tape Management
B and L is a worldwide leader in providing automated tape management systems and operations tools for the legacy systems marketplace. Our newest product is Vertices, a comprehensive tape management system (MMS) for the open systems market. With Vertices, we leverage our vast tape management experience in legacy-class tape management to create scalable tape management 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 tape management control over any media resource, from DLTs to CDs and DATs. Vertices tape management 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 tape management. Vertices unifies all your tape management locations into a centralized tape management 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 tape management software solution for your media-tracking needs. Our Vertices software handles tape management information about all your removable media and mission-critical data, no matter where you generate those data or where you store them. Using the tape management information it captures, Vertices then directs the tape management 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 tape management information. Vertices allows you to track media from primary storage to supplemental storage to offsite facilities and back. It allows you to set tape management 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 tape management activities, and on every segment of data you store on your media. With Vertices you attain maximum control over your tape management while reducing resource costs and enhancing the data center's responses to information requests. From tape management tracking mechanisms to automated logging to vault management to variable retentions, Vertices is your solution.