• Seen by the host as a conventional tape library with increased performance, data availability and reliability
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for all major disk, disk RAID systems and tape devices
• 100% transparency to backup management software on any operating system
• Supports any tape block format
• All tape drive commands are supported
• All tape library commands are supported
• Emulates a sequential stacker for applications without robotics support
• Mirage VTC emulation uses the inquiry string from the attached tape devices or user defined inquiry to offer plug and play compatibility
• Supports Import/Export functions with or without media barcodes
• Supports all major backup and data management software
• Supports all major operating systems

• Seen by the host as a single tape drive with increased performance, online storage capacity & reliability.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for any tape device.
• True 100% transparency to backup management software on any operating system.
• Tape Striping (RAID Level 0) increases performance and online storage capacity up to 4 times more than a single tape drive. 
• Tape Striping with Fault Tolerance (RAID Level 3) provides more speed with the added confidence that your data is protected at a level that no single storage device can provide!
• Tape Mirroring (RAID Level 1) increases your backup productivity by making multiple "EXACT" copies of your data simultaneously in real time or by using Ultera's offline tape copy utility built-in to the controllers menu features.
• Ultera based RAID for removable storage controller Striping & Mirroring solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• Seen by the host as a single tape library with one or more tape drives with increased performance, online storage capacity & reliability.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for any tape library.
• True 100% transparency to backup management software on any operating system.
• Support for tape Striping and Mirroring are built-in to Ultera's LibraryMaster™ product.
• Ultera LibraryMaster™ controller Striping & Mirroring solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

Q: What is RAILMaster™?

A: Ultera's RAILMaster™ controller solutions virtualize multiple tape libraries using RAID to operate as a single virtualized tape library with one or more logical tape drives.

• Seen by the host as a single tape library with one or more tape drives with increased performance, online storage capacity & reliability.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for any tape library.
• True 100% transparency to backup management software on any operating system.
• Support for tape Striping and Mirroring are built-in to Ultera's LibraryMaster™ product.
• Ultera RAILMaster™ controller Striping or Mirroring solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• Seen by the host as a single optical drive with increased performance, online storage capacity & reliability.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for any DVD-RAM or MO device.
• True 100% transparency to backup management software on any operating system.
• Optical Striping (RAID Level 0) increases performance and online storage capacity up to 4 times more than a single optical drive. 
• Optical Striping with Fault Tolerance (RAID Level 3) provides more speed with the added confidence that your data is protected at a level that no single storage device can provide!
• Optical Mirroring (RAID Level 1) increases your backup productivity by making multiple "EXACT" copies of your data simultaneously in real time.
• Ultera based RAID for removable storage controller Striping & Mirroring solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• Seen by the host as a single optical library with increased performance, online storage capacity & reliability.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for any optical jukebox or library.
• True 100% transparency to backup management software on any operating system.
• Optical Mirroring support is built-in to Ultera's Stor2™ product.
• Ultera Stor2™ controller solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• Seen by the host as a single optical library with increased performance, online storage capacity & reliability.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for any optical jukebox or library.
• True 100% transparency to backup management software on any operating system.
• Support for Optical Mirroring and Striping are built-in to Ultera's RapidStor™ product.
• Ultera RapidStor™ controller solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• Seen by the host as a single optical library with increased performance, online storage capacity & reliability.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for any optical jukebox or library.
• True 100% transparency to backup management software on any operating system.
• Support for Optical Mirroring and Striping are built-in to Ultera's Ultera's RAILStor™ product.
• Ultera RAILStor™ controller solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• Seen by the host as a single CD-R drive with increased productivity and reliability.
• Simultaneously masters from 1 to 12 "EXACT" originals.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for preferred Plextor CD-R manufacture red drives.
• True 100% transparency to all mastering software applications on any operating system.
• Ultera CD-R MultiMaster™ controller solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• Seen by the host as a single DVD-R drive with increased productivity and reliability.
• Simultaneously masters from 1 to 12 "EXACT" originals.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for preferred manufacture drives.
• True 100% transparency to all mastering software applications on any operating system.
• Ultera CD-R MultiMaster™ controller solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• Seen by the host as a single storage device with increased performance, online storage capacity & reliability.
• No special drivers required.
• No system overhead.
• Plug-n-Play virtualization support for any removable media data storage device or library.
• Uses the standard Inquiry and device parameter support of the attached array of devices.
• Easy media management by operating a group of media as a single logical media volume or set.
• Transparent barcode support by assigning the same barcode number to each media cartridge within the RAID set.
• RAID set can be loaded in any order or sequence for backup, restore or append operations.

• Performance is increased by operating each of the attached devices in parallel as a Striped set.
• Combines the performance & cache data buffer capability of each drive into one logical enhanced drive with up to 4 times the native transfer rate and data access speed of a single device.

A: Ultera's Striper Series & OpticalRAID RapidStor™ and RAILStor™ controller's operate an array of removable media data storage devices or libraries as an enhanced logical storage device.

• Parallel operation transparently combines the storage capacity of each drive to operate as a single logical media volume with up to 4 times the native online storage capacity.

• With Ultera, you can trust that your data is protected at a level that no single storage device can provide.
• Ultera's RAID for removable storage controllers provide 100 times more data reliability and availability than a single device using a Striping 4+1 (RAID level 3) operating mode.
• Mirroring 2, 3, 4 or 5 drives provides the highest data reliability and availability and supports multiple drive or media faults without data loss (RAID level 1).
• Ultera's Striper Series and Reflection Series controllers provide an embedded Offline Tape Copy feature to produce multiple exact copies or migrate tape data from one format to another using Mirroring (RAID level 1).
• Ultera's MultiMaster Series of DVD-R & CD-R duplicator controllers use Mirroring to produce multiple "EXACT" copies of original masters (RAID level 1).

• Ultera's Mirroring operating mode provides true 100% parallel access to data and operates each drive in the array at full speed, as if it was attached directly to the host.
• Productivity is increased in the same backup or mastering window, up to 12 "EXACT" originals are produced in the same time it takes to create one.
• Ultera's Striper Series and Reflection Series controllers provide an embedded Offline Tape Copy feature to produce multiple "EXACT" copies or migrate tape data from one format to another.
• Ultera's MultiMaster™ controller solutions provide seamless scalability to grow as your needs grow.

• In a Single Library or Multiple Library application, multiple Ultera controllers can be added to virtualize each additional logical drive set.
• Scalability is also achieved by adding multiple ranks of drives attached to a single controller.
• A rank of drives, one drive per array controller channel, is operated as a single logical drive set.
• Multiple ranks of drives are supported as long as the combined performance of each rank does not exceed the bandwidth or sustained speed of the host interface connection.  For relatively slow devices, such as optical DVD-RAM and MO drives, multiple ranks of logical drive sets are operated at full speed.
• Cascading multiple Striper Series & Reflection Series controllers provides seamless scalability for mixed striping or mirroring solutions; Cascading multiple OpticalRAID Series controllers provides increased speed for video streaming/editing applications.

• The Striper Series provides the fastest Database backup and restore capability available today using the most popular tape technologies.
• Performance, access to data and search times are up to 4 times faster than using a conventional tape drive.
• Unattended online storage capacity is increased up to 4 times that of a single media cartridge.
• Fault tolerance is achieved by using Striping (RAID level 3) for performance or Mirroring (RAID level 1) for disaster recovery (onsite/offsite) applications.
• RAID data protection insures your data for long term archival with up to 100 times more reliability.

• The Striper Series combined with library automation enable highly scalable and flexible backup solutions at the device level.
• The Striper Series provides the fastest Database backup and restore capability available today using the most popper tape technologies.
• Performance, access to data and search times are up to 4 times faster than using a single tape drive.
• Unattended online storage capacity is increased up to 4 times that of a single media cartridge.
  In a serverless backup, SAN or NAS/NDMP application, less remote media management is required since each logical media set is moved as a single volume at the hardware controller/library level.
• Fault tolerance is achieved by using Striping (RAID level 3) for performance or Mirroring (RAID level 1) for disaster recovery (on site/off site) applications.
• RAID data protection insures your data for long term archival with up to 100 times more reliability.

• Ultera's Striper Series or Reflection Series controllers combined with library automation enable highly scalable and flexible disaster recovery solutions at the device level.
• Ultera's Mirroring solutions provide 100% data redundancy for disaster recovery applications that require multiple copies of backups for on site & off site storage or archival.
• Ultera's Striping solutions provide fault tolerance using data redundancy for disaster recovery applications that require long term data storage or archival.

• Ultera's RAID for removable storage controllers operate at the device level.
• As long as the devices attached to the Ultera controller are natively supported by the host platform & operating system, they are transparently operated as a single logical device with no additional drivers or software required.

• As long as the devices attached to the Ultera controller are natively supported by the host platform & operating system, they are transparently operated as a single logical device with no additional drivers or software required.
• On going support for the latest tape, optical and automation technologies for each of the Ultera hardware controller platforms currently in production is accomplished by upgrading the controllers firmware.   For more information, click here.