8: Typical Customer Environments; Unix Networks; Small And Midsize Environments - StorageTek L20 Series General Manual

Typical Customer Environments
Enterprises of all sizes will benefit greatly from the StorageTek libraries' high
performance, high availability, and flexibility. The libraries' architecture provides agility to
accommodate future technological changes in the marketplace.
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UNIX Networks

Organizations with large UNIX and NT networks gain a competitive advantage from the
libraries' fast-loading speeds and parallel data paths, which speed throughput. Typical
configurations for the L40 and L80 include database servers, application servers, and file
servers.
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Small and Midsize Environments

The libraries' high performance benefits small and midsize environments. Typical
configurations include:
• L20 is especially useful for small environments.
• L40 and L80 can have multiple hosts to a single library.
• L40 and L80 are network-attached libraries for centralized monitoring and
diagnosing machine performance.
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