announced today thatTennis Channel, the only 24-hour, television-based multimedia destination dedicated to both the professional sport and tennis lifestyle, recently selected a with six and 950 activated slots to store and protect 50TB, or 946 hours of video footage. With , Tennis Channel now has a storage platform that automates tape handling and supports growing backup data sets at much faster speeds.

“We chose over competing data tape libraries due to its known reliability, ease in adding slots and drives, strong customer service reputation and reasonable pricing,” said Dean Hadaegh, chief technology officer and senior vice president of technical operations for Tennis Channel. “Our previous single-drive archival storage was too slow and did not offer adequate capacity or room for growth. helps us meet our nine-hour backup window, and the removable make it easy to rotate data offsite for archival as needed.”

Tennis Channel partitions the into two virtual tape libraries, and conducts a full backup on weekends, with incremental backups on weekdays. The first, enterprise partition uses Symantec to backup the Windows environment including all servers and the share drives using the two . The second XSAN partition uses BakBone NetVault software to back up Apple environment data, including all the data in the edit bays for production, promo and the graphic department using four .