Sun StorageTek T9840D Tape Drive is the 4th generation of the platform since its introduction in 1998. This latest release boasts 75 GB native capacity, 30 MB/second throughput and, for the first time, the T9840D is encryption-capable.
Software and hardware parts for the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Plus (VTL Plus) System 2.0 were to be general available on March 29th. This VTL Plus 2.0 availability is for the VTL Plus 2.0 1200 model, which is replacing the VTL Plus 1140.
Bob Porras has an idea he'd like to share with you, which concerns A Completed Open Source Storage Stack, the storage code base recently posted at opensolaris,org in the area of hierarchical storage management (HSM). And this is not just standard backup, he asserts, but rather a solution that addresses automated data management via policies driven by data and metadata. HSM drives some of the largest data repositories out there in the industry today, he added.
Project Honeycomb, a.k.a. Sun StorageTek 5800, receives the scrutiny of Mario Apicella, senior analyst at InfoWorld Test Center in a recent test. The findings are very positive --InfoWorld
IBM System z10 server will now be supported by Sun's Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) family of virtual tape, tape libraries, access and capacity tape drives, the Sun StorageTek 9990V and 9985V disk systems, and the Shared Virtual Array (SVA) family of Virtual Disk.
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