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Sun Microsystems Announces World’s First One Terabyte Tape Storage Drive

2008-07-14 07:50:00

Sun Microsystems Announces World’s First One Terabyte Tape Storage Drive

Leader in Tape Storage Automation Delivers Industry’s Highest Capacity

Tape Drive for Better Datacenter Efficiency, Cutting Cost Per Gigabyte

and Space Requirements in Half

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(EMWNews)–Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) again raised the bar on the storage

industry with the release of the industry’s first one terabyte tape

storage drives. The new eco-efficient Sun StorageTek(TM) T10000B tape

drive offers customers one terabyte of native storage capacity on a

single cartridge for open or mainframe systems environments. The leader

in tape storage automation, Sun has delivered on its commitment to

best-in-breed archive innovation and continues to trump the industry

with high-performance, high capacity solutions that offer significantly

greater return on investment versus the competition. Learn more about

this new open innovation at http://www.sun.com/T10000B.

Today’s data centers are experiencing exponentially growing data rates

with flat to declining budgets. CIOs and data center managers need

highly available access to data and the assurance that the media upon

which they are storing data is both reliable and secure. In addition,

they need to consolidate floor space and lower power requirements. Sun’s

new highly innovative tape solutions help customers to minimize costs

through better performance and capacity.

Sun has again delivered on its promise to

help customers achieve greater datacenter efficiency and raised the bar

on the industry by bringing the world’s first one terabyte tape storage

drive to market, said Jason Schaffer, senior

director, storage marketing, Sun Microsystems. The

high capacity Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive works with the fast

access Sun StorageTek T9840D tape drive to optimize customers’

multi-tiered storage architecture and cut datacenter space requirements

in half.

The T10000B tape drive protects customers’ investments and maximizes IT

return on investment by providing the second generation of media re-use

and backward read/write compatibility; therefore, allowing customers who

have standardized on Sun StorageTek T10000 media family to gain double

capacity on existing cartridges. With the enterprise-class T10000

platform’s proven reliability and availability in high duty cycle

environments, customer data centers will be equipped for 24×7 operations.

Pricing and Availability

The Sun StorageTek T10000B Fibre Channel Tape Drive starts at $37,000

and will be available this month.

For more information, please see www.sun.com/T10000B.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global

marketplace. Guided by a singular vision — “The Network is the

Computer(TM)” — Sun drives network participation through shared

innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be

found in more than 100 countries an on the Web at http://sun.com

Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, Sun Storage,

StorageTek, Java, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or

registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. or its subsidiaries in

the United States and other countries.

Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Michelle Parkinson, 415-294-5086
[email protected]

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