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.
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