Founded in 1863, the Slovak National Library, the oldest and largest national library in Slovakia, has chosen the Sun Modular Data Center to support the digitization, access, and long term preservation of the National Library Archives. The Slovak National Library, with a rich history dating back to the middle of the 19th century, consists of 110 libraries and over 4 million titles. It is administered by the Slovak Ministry of Culture.

IT services provider Tempest assisted the library in making its decision to implement a virtualized desktop solution built on Sun Ray technology from Sun Microsystems. While the library had completed wide-scale deployment projects in the past, those were mostly limited to the university campus environment. The solution from Sun Microsystems was the library’s first nationwide deployment, which Sun and Tempest help to implement within three months.

With the system in place, libraries in 110 Slovak communities now offer free Internet access with the help of Sun Ray technology from Sun Microsystems. Sun Ray 2 virtual display clients connect to operating systems and software running on servers in a central datacenter. Library visitors use the solution to connect with the Internet, work with open source software, and print documents.

Sun Ray Software 4, which runs on the Solaris 10 Operating System, provides the flexibility the library needs because it can deliver a variety of desktop operating systems, including Windows. In addition, users have more than just free Internet access — they can use OpenOffice 2.0, Skype communications programs, and Web-based services such as online library catalogs and e-government applications.

In his blog, Keith Rajecki provides additional details on the implementation, such as the information on the role of the Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM-QFS) running on clusters of Sun X4500 Storage Servers and SL8500 Modular Tape Library.

Rajecki writes that Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM) software provides data classification, centralized meta-data management, and policy based data placement across the storage platform in order to optimize the storage efficiency based on data access requirements and usage patterns. SAM is key to the protection, migration, and the most cost-effective long-term preservation of digital objects.

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