Did you know that there is a Large Tape Users Group (LTUG) that meets twice a year to add its recommendations to Sun's open systems and mainframe tape products, roadmaps, and directions. "The strength and industry-leading capabilities of Sun’s tape business is largely the result of LTUG and, if your company satisfy the minimal requirements, you too can be a member," writes Sun's Jay Wallace, who discusses the LTUG and shares highlights from the group's April 2009 meeting in his blog.
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This helpful compilation of white papers on the role of tape in storage technology comes from Jay Wallace's blog. Wallace provides brief comments characterizing each of the five papers he cites and includes links to all of them.
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Customers can now extend the addressable market of the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Prime (VTL Prime) by adding one high capacity configuration, which comes with 26 TB of VTL Cache along with 65TB of de-duplication repository. VTL Prime is an integrated VTL and data de-duplication solution that also provides highly efficient, cost-cutting replication of only the unique data.
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