IDC Worldwide Tape QView Q2 CY09 reports Sun earned the most for tape storage automation revenue during the first half of calendar year 2009. Sun saw growth within its installed base as well as with new customers. "Sun StorageTek does not make autoloaders or entry automation and has the number one market position on the basis of the strength of its SL500, SL3000, and SL8500 midrange and enterprise automation," the IDC report states.
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Sun StorageTek SL8500 Tape Library Bundles are now part of Sun's Used Parts Program, which offers customers the option of purchasing pre-owned parts at discounted rates. All of the StorageTek SL8500 Tape Libraries in Sun's Used Program are rebuilt and can be expected to deliver the same performance, reliability, quality and investment protection as new Sun StorageTek SL8500 Tape Library parts, the company reports.
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New capacity and performance enhancements have been added to the Sun StorageTek Virtual Systems Manager (VSM) - Sun's tape virtualization storage archive solution. If thinking about migrating, take a look at Sun Services that offer a range of options to make the transition to tape virtualization storage archive solutions easier.
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Each month Sun Marketing publishes the "Good News" about Sun. This month there are 12 items and three groups:
Customers Choose Sun: Sun Java Wireless Client, Sun servers, Sun storage, Solaris 10, Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system and Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drives.
Leading Market Conversations: OpenStorage, NetBeans, Q-Layer and cloud computing, and MySQL
Product Reviews Underscore Innovation: Sun Storage 7110, Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.1, OpenSolaris, Sun Fire X4150, and Sun StorageTek 5800.
A two-page PDF of the "Good News" from Sun is available in English and several other languages.
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In the white paper "The Market Opportunity for Enterprise Tape" IDC considers the role of enterprise-class tape drives and particularly Sun's StorageTek T10000B tape drive, in the context of Sun's storage portfolio as well as in the secondary storage market.
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