Looking for a better way to manage your evolving storage requirements while maintaining service levels? The Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System lets you grow your tape automation environment at your own pace. It offers true mixed media, logical and physical partitioning capabilities, advanced management, and high availability features, so you can consolidate mainframe and open systems environments while minimising power, space, and operating cost.

• Scales up to 56 drives
• Expands from 200 to 3,000 cartridge slots
• Up to 24.2 TB/hr throughput (maximum configuration)

Ironclad technology and reliability with proven results. The Sun StorageTek L1400 tape library brings exceptional value by reducing risk and cost while improving storage productivity.

• Centralised library management from a single console
• Seamless support means easy integration with UNIX, Linux and Windows NT environments
• Scalability to grow from 200 to 678 slots in 100-slot increments

Award-winning scalability and value add up to the most flexible solution for mid-range data protection and archiving requirements. Start saving money and getting results right now with the SL500 modular library system.

• Genuine scalability and fast, reliable backups deliver performance necessary for shrinking backup windows in high-availability environments
• Saves space with rack mount configuration and dense cartridge slots
• Improves reliability and serviceability with superior robotics and easy serviceability

Looking for a better way to protect your business-critical data? Need to save valuable rack space? The rack-ready Sun StorageTek SL48 Tape Library is the ideal choice for backup and restore, archiving, and disaster recovery, providing you with the reliability, simplicity, and value of high-capacity, automated backup and recovery in a space-efficient form factor. Plus, it's easy to install, manage, and use.

• Up to 19.2 TB capacity with the LT0 3 tape drive
• Up to 160 MB/sec throughput
• Up to 576 GB/hr performance
• 4U form factor

Need cost-effective high-capacity backup and recovery? Constrained by space? The Sun StorageTek SL24 Tape Autoloader provides you with the reliability, simplicity, and value of high-capacity automated backup and recovery in an easy-to-use, rack-ready, space-efficient form factor.

• Up to 9.6 TB capacity with the LT0 3 tape drive
• Up to 80 MB/sec throughput
• Up to 288 GB/hr performance
• 2U form factor

Raising the bar. The Sun StorageTek T10000 tape drive raises the bar on data protection, efficiency, and risk mitigation with technical advancements in capacity, throughput, reliability and media reusability. Not only is it fast with 500 GB capacity and 120 MB/sec capacity, the T10000 drive offers exceptional overall value for enterprise IT departments, because it delivers large capacity and reduces complexity to improve the use of information.
It helps mitigate risk through multiple reliability enhancements, crypto-ready device-based encryption, and Sun StorageTek VolSafe secure media technology. And it introduces simplicity in high duty cycle enterprise and open systems environments by integrating easily with other Sun solutions and third-party solutions.

• Supports top-line business growth by affordably and reliably storing greater amounts data
• Breakthrough performance of 120 MB/second shortens backup windows and saves time and money by doing more work with fewer drives
• Helps to ensure business continuity with high reliability features, such as the SafeGuide system, that mitigate risk in the datacentre
• Enhances security with crypto-ready technology now available on the T10000 tape drive

Closed, proprietary storage can lock you in and limit your flexibility and scalability. The StorageTek T10000B tape drive lets you cost-effectively add capacity in the same footprint, enabling you to easily and dynamically scale your infrastructure.

• 1 TB native data capacity
• 120 MB/sec throughput
• Built in encryption technology
• Supports FICON and Fibre Channel using the same hardware

Get ahead. Empower business continuity. Enhance data protection. The Sun StorageTek T9940B tape drive brings uncompromised value by affordably and reliably storing greater amounts of historical data for critical business applications.

• Supports top-line business growth by affordably and reliably storing greater amounts of critical business data
• Data can be simultaneously vaulted to remote sites for recovery in case of disaster
• Reduces total cost of ownership by storing data on high-performance, capacity-centric tape

Unparalleled value, performance and protection. That's the Sun StorageTek T9840C tape drive. It's the logical choice for enterprise customers requiring extremely rapid data access, unmatched reliability and power at a significantly lower price point than disk-based solutions.

• The fast access meets data storage needs affordably and minimises the need for higher cost disk
• Mix and match tape drives in Sun StorageTek libraries and achieve the optimum balance of access and capacity
• Robust design delivers enterprise-class ultra-reliability and minimises the risk of downtime
• Improves resource and space utilization with high data capacities on a single cartridge

Speed, reliability, security, and predictability are essential in 24x7 transaction-intensive IT environments. The Sun StorageTek T9840D tape drive provides fast data access and recall and high throughput, enabling you to improve response times, shrink backup windows, and increase system and application availability.

• 16.5 seconds access time
• 75 GB native capacity
• Supports Fibre Channel, ESCON, FICON interfaces
• 30 MB/sec data transfer rate

Economical and fast. Sun StorageTek LTO drives provide fast data transfer and large capacity for midrange tape automation environments. Plus, WORM (write once, read many) -capable media integration allows you to meet stringent regulatory demands. The result is an economical and high-performance tape drive delivering value to midrange IT operations.

• 400 GB cartridge native capacity
• 60 MB/sec native transfer rate
• Backward read/write compatible with LTO 2 media
• Rackmount SCSI & SAS configurations

The Sun StorageTek DAT 72 tape drive provides a balance of dependable backup capacity and performance for mainstream, value-conscious customers needing local backup. It offers the proven reliability and low cost of ownership of DDS/DAT backup - combined with the flexibility and ease of use that USB or SCSI connectivity can provide.

It has a native capacity of 36 GB per cartridge and a native throughput of 3 MBytes/sec. The Sun StorageTek DAT 72 tape drive comes in either a rackmount or desktop format, or as an internal option for many Sun servers. The rackmount configuration comes standard with 1 drive in a 1U form factor, with the option of adding a second drive.

• Ideal for direct attach, local backup
• Large file transfers accomplished with portable, durable media
• Read/write compatibility with DDS-3 and DDS-4 products
• Desktop, 1U rackmount, or internal server options

It's a good bet your shrinking backup window is a growing problem. Too much data, increasing every day, can slow one-tape-at-a-time transfers and cause backup failure delays. The restore side could use some acceleration, too. The Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Plus 2.0 (VTL Plus 2.0) provides immediate relief.

• Higher availability assures completed backups and protected data
• Enhanced performance assures faster backup, smaller backup windows, and more successful backups
• Advanced configuration: up to 2 servers active/active, 8 FC front-end ports, 32 host connections (series 3000)

StorageTek VTL Prime utilises powerful Sun Fire servers and Sun StorageTek arrays to provide you with the high performance, scalability, and reliability you need to meet your remote backup and data de-duplication requirements.

• Up to 64 TB raw capacity
• Up to 400 MB/sec throughput
• Up to 30 TB SIR repository
• Supports up to 64 libraries
• Supports Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity

Data reliability and security are critical to your business. The physical loss of tape cartridges containing sensitive data poses a major financial risk. Now you can reduce your exposure with high-speed data encryption on the tape drive. The Sun StorageTek Crypto Key Management System centrally authorizes, secures, and manages all of your encryption keys.

• Adheres to FIPS140-2 security requirements
• Supports CCM-AES-256 encryption for the Sun StorageTek T10000 and T9840D tape drives
• Supports up to 3,000 tape drives and 1,000,000 keys from a single KMS cluster
• Provides secure, remote management of keys as well as policy-based key distribution and expiration