Oracle announced it is the first enterprise tape automation vendor to offer up to 150 petabytes of native storage capacity managed in a single tape library. This is a result of the enhancements to the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System and the StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive. With the SL8500 supporting the LTO-5 and increasing its scalable capacity from 70,000 to 100,000 tape slots and redundant electronics, the tape libraries now offer a 90 percent increase in capacity over LTO-4 drives and a 16 percent improvement in overall performance, Oracle said.

"Large tape users now have the capacity to accommodate the explosion of data in their organizations," said Jim Cates, vice president, Tape Development, Oracle. "Only Oracle’s StorageTek enterprise tape solutions enable customers to easily scale capacity to upwards of 150 petabytes in one, easy to manage storage system – while systems remain up-and-running.”

Oracle frames the enhanced StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System as offering customers:

• Scalability: Ten StorageTek SL8500 Modular Tape libraries can be linked and managed as one massively-scalable 100,000 slot library, reducing complexity while boosting capacity to five times that of other enterprise tape libraries.

• Reliability: The only tape library with non-disruptive hot-swappable robotics that also provides redundant electronics and hot-swappable library control cards. These new features maximize availability by providing automatic failover capabilities that are transparent to host applications.

• Simplified management: The Storage Tek SL8500 Modular Tape Library System enables tape consolidation across multiple, heterogeneous system environments with on-line service and upgrades and per-slot mixing of media so storage administrators can spend less time managing islands of storage.

• Cost savings: The improved scalability and enterprise-wide consolidation capabilities helps reduce acquisition, maintenance, and administrative costs since a single library supports mainframe, open systems, and technical computing environments.

For the StorageTek LTO-5 tape drive, Oracle points out the benefits in these features:

• High capacity: 1.5 terabytes of native capacity and a throughput of 140 megabytes per second, uncompressed, a 90 percent increase in capacity over LTO-4 drives and a 16 percent improvement in overall performance.

• Energy efficiency: Significantly reduced energy costs from LTO-4, consuming 48 percent less power when idle.

Oracle claims that combining the StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System and StorageTek LTO-5 tape drives with Oracle’s Sun Storage Archive Manager and multiple tiers of Oracle storage can simplify storage operations and reduce the overall cost of storage by up to 70 percent when compared to a single tier of performance-optimized disk.

The StorageTek tape line works natively with Oracle Solaris, Enterprise Linux, Oracle VM, Exadata V2 server, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle applications and Sun servers, as well as other third-party mainframe and open systems products.

More Information

Oracle’s StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System Data Sheet

Oracle’s StorageTek LTO Tape Drives Data Sheet

Oracle’s StorageTek Tape Storage Product Line [...read more...]

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