Lufthansa Systems has been planning and operating its data storage on a strategic basis with one of the most modern computer systems in Europe for years. By the end of 1999, the IT managers at Lufthansa Systems were certain that changing the storage system was the only possible and economically efficient way to manage its continuous and long-term data growth. StorageTek developed a virtual storage concept incorporating two of the existing StorageTek PowderHorn libraries, outfitting each library with seven of the world's fastest, high-capacity StorageTek T9840B tape drives. With the new tape drives, the capacity per tape was increased from 800 megabytes to 20 gigabytes (uncompressed) and the average data access time was significantly reduced.
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