The latest additions to Sun's open archive portfolio include:

Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System

This midrange library is based on the Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system and is the first with non-disruptive scalability of up to 3,000 slots as well as the first mid-range solution to offer "Any cartridge, Any Slot" technology to enable consolidation and leverage existing investments.

Sun StorageTek SL3000 offers flexible partitioning for easier and more efficient archive data management and its "Centerline" technology improves time to data (cartridge-to-drive performance) speed by up to 50%, Sun states.

The company also reports this system delivers up to 50% reduction in space and up to 10 times the power savings over comparable libraries.

Sun StorageTek T9840D Tape Drive

This tape drive averages a data access time that is up to four times faster than conventional capacity-centric tape drives, states Sun.

As the first tape drive to allow for re-using and reformatting media across four generations of tape drives, The T9840D definitely improves tape media return-on-investment (ROI). It also delivers build-in encryption to protect sensitive archive data and offers a cost-optimized tier of storage for certain nearline archive applications.

Sun Crypto Key Management System (KMS) 2.0

The first key management solution to deliver a single, centralized key encryption architecture for multi-vendor tape drives, including the HP LTO, Sun StorageTek T9840D, and Sun StorageTek T10000 products. It is designed to support up to 30x more devices than competing solutions.

KMS 2.0 has enhanced its network access and device support from the previous version.

Sun is the first to commit to open sourcing its key management system, so customers do not have to concern themselves with vendor lock-in for their long-term archives.

Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System

Built around Sun's Storage Archive Manager (SAM) software, this system offers optional tiers of performance and capacity disk along with tape storage for less active archive data. It comes with a robust policy set for automation of archive data movement across tiers of storage. Multi-tiered archive are up to 50% less expensive than all-disk alternatives.

Sun storage hardware and software is heterogeneous and works with all major operating systems. Developers can download open archive technology at OpenSolaris for free.

"...Sun is committed to delivering archive solutions that leverage open source software and to using open formats and APIs that both 'future-proof' customers against costly technology changes down the road and blow the lid off of competing high-margin proprietary offerings," said Jon Benson, senior vice-president of Storage, Sun.

Benson along with Systems Executive Vice President John Fowler preview these new open archive solutions in an on-demand webcast. [...read more...]

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