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Other than your employees, data is your organization's most valuable asset. Make sure your data is protected with Sun's award-winning storage solutions. Sun StorageTek products offer a vast array of data replication and recovery options to meet even your most stringent business goals.

Data Replication

Ensure the continuity of your IT infrastructure with synchronous and asynchronous data replication solutions from Sun.

Disk storage systems
Array-based copy and replication technologies are the method of choice for maintaining business continuity in five-nine (99.999%) availability scenarios or when the RTO is less than 4 hours. Sun disk storage systems, including Sun StorageTek workgroup (ST2000/3000 series), midrange (ST6000 series) and enterprise solutions (ST9000 series), offer industry-leading, highly reliable, scalable data replication and backup. For the utmost in performance, the ST9000 series delivers enterprise-class functionality. With simplified management, integrated storage virtualization, thin provisioning, logical partitioning, and universal replication, you'll improve your storage economics without sacrificing mission-critical availability.

Data Recovery

Ensure you can recover from anything, no matter the severity of your datacenter disruption. Sun's storage products ensure that you don't lose your data and can recover it within your designated RPO and RTO.

Tape Storage Systems
Tape is the most appropriate option for long-term storage or applications with an RTO greater than 4 hours. Sun has a comprehensive tape portfolio, from desktop backup devices to rack-mounted tape autoloaders, to midrange and high-end tape libraries.

The StorageTek SL24 Tape Autoloader and SL48 Tape Library provide affordable tape automation for small to medium enterprises and remote offices. They support the latest tape drive technologies and can be either direct- or SAN-attached, offering the performance your business needs.

For larger environments, the StorageTek SL500 Modular Library System offers cost-effective, modular scalability with up to 18 drives and over 460 TB in a standard 19" rack. You'll be able to increase capacity and throughput as your requirements grow, while the built-in Fibre Channel connectivity eliminates the need for additional SAN equipment. The StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System provides enterprise environments with completely redundant hot-swap components to ensure high reliability for mainframe and open systems environments, while saving valuable floor-space and power over previous libraries.

Disk Storage Systems
For short RTOs, Sun offers a variety of disk-based recovery alternatives. Disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) configurations provide the high performance of disk with the power and acquisition benefits of tape. The StorageTek Modular Array Family (ST2000/6000 series) provides industry-leading performance in a reliable, scalable design, while the enterprise-class ST9000 series offers integrated storage virtualization, thin provisioning, logical partitioning, and universal replication.
Virtual Tape Systems
These options let both mainframe and open system customers store backups on a disk-based virtual tape device for a period of time before migrating the data to tape. This reduces the backup window by providing a high-speed, random-access storage medium while providing the economies of long-term tape storage. Mainframe-based StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager is the undisputed market leader, with over 3500 installations and industry-leading functionality. With Sun's virtual tape solutions, customers enjoy the performance and business continuity benefits of disk, without losing the economies of tape.
Backup Software
Sun offers a complete portfolio of backup software, with support for the full range of Sun hardware and software, to provide the data protection capabilities you need whether your environment is large or small, distributed or centralized.

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