Protect Your Assets and Data
Key Benefits
- Sun offers affordable, reliable tape solutions, from individual drives for Windows, the Solaris 10 OS, and Linux to automated tape libraries
- A variety of backup software options from Symantec, BakBone, and Sun offer support for the platforms and applications you rely on to run your business
- The open-source Solaris 10 OS provides remarkable security at zero extra cost
About This Solution
Sun's data protection solutions provide the operational resiliency your organization needs to guard against unplanned downtime due to human error or a disaster. Sun's backup products work across Windows, Solaris, Linux, and all other major UNIX operating systems. Sun also offers ultra-efficient storage server and disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) options, as well as industry-leading backup software, including Veritas NetBackup by Symantec, BakBone's NetVault, and Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software.
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“ All I can say is that the T2000 can just flat out move data. Thank you, Sun, for a great backup server!”
— Dan Bacus, Enterprise Engineer, Corrections Corporation of America
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Business Issues
- Risk of system disruption, customer dissatisfaction, or total loss of data
- Maintaining compliance with federal requirements to preserve documents
- Increasing resources required to back up an ever-expanding amount of data, and to be able to restore the data in the event of a disruption
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Business Results
- Valuable data is protected, so your business keeps running
- Businesses can more efficiently archive and access documents, and maintain compliance with governmental regulations
- Lower costs for hardware, administration, and energy improve your financial efficiency and free up resources for expansion into new services
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Sun Innovations at Work
- Sun StorageTek is the undisputed leader in tape library technology, and has been providing backup solutions for multiple platforms from Windows to the mainframe for more than 35 years; furthermore, 37% of the world's archived data is stored on Sun StorageTek systems
- The Sun StorageTek 2540 array posted the best price/performance score on the Storage Performance Council's SPC-2 benchmark
The Sun Fire X4500 storage server is unmatched for performance and price/performance. Consider this:
- Best price/performance score on the Transaction Processing Council's TPC-H benchmark: 16% better than previous record (HP DL585 G2)
- Lowest cost: $1.20/GB list price, including the server
- Delivers two to five times the density of a traditional storage system—and approximately 30-50% power savings over traditional solutions—at about 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of comparable systems
- InfoWorld has named the Sun Fire X4500 server the Best Storage Server in its 2008 Technology of the Year Awards
- Preinstalled Solaris with integrated Solaris Containers, to support web virtualization
- World-record web server performance on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 and the Sun Fire X4200
- Integration with NetBackup provides unified, end-to-end data protection across heterogeneous technologies
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System Sizing Guide
Sun offers data protection in a full range of performance levels, form factors, and pricing to match your needs.
Entry Level Choices |
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| Application |
Form Factor |
Sizing Needs |
Products |
| Backup and Disaster Recovery with Tape Solutions |
Desktop or Rack |
1 machine, up to 50 GB |
From $995
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| 1 machine, up to 600 GB |
From $2,195
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Rack |
Up to 5 machines, up to 10 TB |
From $7,000
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| Up to 10 machines, Up to 20 TB |
From $9,100
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| 10 to 100 machines, 10-200 TB |
From $16,400
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Reference Materials
Here's the drill-down on Sun's data protection solution:
Top News Stories
Data Sheets
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Featured Product Gallery
Here are just a few systems that address this solution.
White Papers
We also have Quick Start Guides for the Enterprise Backup Software, NetVault, and Symantec backup solutions on the Sun Fire X4500 storage server, stepping the user through configuration.
Success Stories
See how other small and medium businesses are moving ahead with Sun innovations.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q:
Why should I implement a D2D2T solution?
A:
Backing up to disk provides the highest performance, allowing you to back up more data in less time. But tape is more economical for offsite storage and consumes far less power. A D2D2T solution combining the performance of disk with the economics of tape provides the best of both worlds.
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