Sun and StorageTek have signed an OEM partnership agreement under which Sun will market and sell StorageTek's StreamLine SL8500 array under its own Sun StorEdgeTM brand, along with StorageTek's L-700e and L-180 tape libraries.

"The vision for Sun and StorageTek has always been to combine our strengths in the most supportive, strategic way possible, and to jointly deliver the best automated tape technology solutions the market has seen to date to the benefit of our global customer base," said Philip Belcher, Managing Director for StorageTek Australia/New Zealand. "As we enter the sixth year of our partnership we mark today's success by offering the full feature set for enterprise-class solutions: multi-platform support, tiered tape storage, automation of management and opportunity for lower overall storage cost of ownership."

"Sun is committed to improving the way data is accessed and managed and as a result of our partnership with StorageTek we are in a position to realize exciting new revenue opportunities," said Jim Hassell, Managing Director, Sun Microsystems Australasia.

The first offering in StorageTek's next-generation StreamLine family of enterprise information lifecycle management solutions, the SL8500 provides unmatched consolidation capabilities, high availability, performance and scalability at the same time it minimizes its footprint in the data center.

With this agreement, StorageTek gains greater access to Sun's 6,000-strong sales professionals and opens up new joint marketing and selling opportunities. StorageTek and Sun can now offer enterprise customers that require bullet-proof back up and recovery capabilities for mission-critical-data the opportunity to provide the ideal solution to address the consolidation of enterprise and midrange computing infrastructures. [...read more...]

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