Sun Achieves Industry Milestone with 10,000th Tape Library Shipment

Sun Delivers "Sun StorageTek SL3000" to Market

(13.06.08) - Sun Microsystems announced a significant milestone in the IT industry: over 10,000 "Sun StorageTek SL500" tape libraries have been shipped since 2004. Sun also announced it has started shipping in mass production the scalable, energy-efficient "Sun StorageTek SL3000" midrange modular library - which works with leading operating systems like the Solaris Operating System (OS) and offers double the storage density of similar products on the market.

Sun's end-to-end archive and data protection portfolio provides customers a way to manage explosive data challenges in the datacenter. Sun's storage solutions leverage an open approach with storage hardware platforms that offers investment protection over competing proprietary offerings.

Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System Ships

Rounding out Sun's extensive portfolio of innovative, scalable and open archive and data protection solutions, the SL3000 changes the economic equation for companies that need to manage their IT bottom lines. The first midrange library with non-disruptive scalability of up to 3,000 slots, the Sun StorageTek SL3000 storage system delivers up to 50 percent reduction in space and up to 10x power savings over comparable libraries. Based on the industry-leading Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system, it is the first midrange library that allows a customer to upgrade up to 3,000 slots on-the-fly without downtime and the first solution to enable consolidation and leverage existing tape drive and media investments. It has the most flexible partitioning in the industry for easier and more efficient archive data management and its CenterLine technology improves time-to-data speed by up to 50 percent.

Sun "Open" for Archive Storage Business

Sun is a vendor with an open approach to archiving that allows customers to easily deploy Sun archive components into their existing environment and to leverage Sun open source community innovations, expertise and support. Sun storage hardware and software is heterogeneous and works with all major operating systems including Solaris 10 OS.

The only major IT vendor committed to open sourcing its storage software, Sun enables customers and the developer community to customize and enhance the products as needed while providing continued software investment and support. Solaris ZFS simplifies storage and data management and allows customers to offer data security and integrity, virtually unlimited scalability and automated manageability for demanding applications today and well into the future. (Sun: ra)