We did a similar exercise a few years ago to consider a successor to the L700. I looked in detail at a number of libraries available at the time, and we chose what was then the ADIC Scalar i2000 - now Quantum. We had collated reqirements and scored them before asking for information from vendors, which turned out a good thing as we had hard evidence to fend off vendors who went straight to the CIO when not selected.
If you contact me off-list I might be able to find more information about what other libraries we looked at and why we did not select them. I recall the i2000 was way ahead of many in terms of the capability of the GUI. Compared to the L700 (and we still have quite a few of them) it's in a different league. I don't think the SL3000 was around when we looked, only the SL8500. Of course vendors don't stand still, so features they lacked when we looked may be sorted now. William D L Brown veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu wrote on 07/08/2009 16:34:10: > Looking for info on comparisons between tape robot technology. > We've been using a Sun/Storagetek L700 for about seven years. It's > been running spectacularly. We're getting ready to add a second > robot and we're looking at a Sun/Storagetek SL3000 with eight LTO4 > drives. My CIO asked me if I had looked at competitive robots and I > had to answer no, and now I'm being asked to do due diligence, but > I'd prefer not contacting new resellers, as then my phone will be > ringing nonstop...... > > I'd be happy to solicit opinions from the mailing group though........ > > Links to any info on this topic would also be appreciated, as > cursory google's didn't yield much. > > Thanks, > Steve_______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu ----------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail was sent by GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited (registered in England and Wales No. 1047315), which is a member of the GlaxoSmithKline group of companies. The registered address of GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited is 980 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex TW8 9GS. ----------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu