BlackPearl

BlackPearl Overview

To meet the demands of extreme data growth and long-term retention, the Spectra BlackPearl™ Deep Storage Gateway enables users to easily store massive data forever at virtually no cost. Designed for organizations where data is a significant part of their operations, BlackPearl allows data to move seamlessly into mass tape storage in a way not previously possible.

BlackPearl enables users to deploy a tier of deep storage that is cost effective, easy to manage and scalable to Exabytes of data. With BlackPearl’s simple RESTful Spectra S3 interface and embedded tape management software, organizations will confidently store all of their data forever at costs as low as pennies per Gigabyte.


Low Cost Storage
BlackPearl takes advantage of tape’s low cost, economically scaling to Exabyte capacities. It also promotes reductions…
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Minimal Software Costs
Integrating BlackPearl requires minimal software acquisition costs to attach deep storage into your environment by leveraging…
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Control Information
Deep storage is the ultimate resting place for all data, and with BlackPearl there is no need to continually move data to another storage platform…
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Reduce Complexities
By leveraging the Spectra S3 interface, BlackPearl unlocks tape’s true calling. BlackPearl takes user defined buckets, caches the buckets on…
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Ensured Integrity
Spectra tape libraries provide a powerful set of tools that allow for data integrity verification and notifications of media, drive, library…
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Deep Storage Interface
The first RESTful interface to tape, Spectra S3 provides BlackPearl and client interaction via REST, allowing you to move large data sets…
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