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ROBAR (BS2000/OSD)

An automated robotic cartridge mounting, retrieval and return system linked to BS2000 hosts

Announced version: V6.5 
Current version: V6.0

In data centers with large data volumes there is usually a great number of magnetic media. For large-scale configurations manual methods of tape processing require an inordinate amount of time and effort for the handling and archiving of tapes.
Fujitsu BS2000/OSD ROBAR automates the media management on BS2000 servers in combination with virtual (Fujitsu ETERNUS CS High End) and real (Quantum) archiving systems.

This virtualization and ROBAR-automation provide customers with key economic benefits:
  • Reduction of operation-failures via automation. 
  • Optimum use of tape drives and media. 
  • Increased performance of MTC processing through parallelization. 
  • Improved capacity exploitation for high-capacity media. 
  • Higher availability via failover-configurations and failover-automation.