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Consolidate your datacenter and reduce TCO with Sun's scalable, eco-efficient, highly available enterprise tape technology, and gain the agility your business needs to remain competitive.


Ultra-Efficient Libraries

Consolidate your smaller tape libraries into one high-performance system, reduce storage costs, and save up to 50% in floor space. Eco-friendly and almost infinitely scalable, the Sun StorageTek SL8500 and SL3000 libraries work in open environments with different servers, applications, and operating systems. Mix-and-match media and drives to meet ever-increasing storage demands-and ever-rising expectations for 24x7 data availability.


Tape Drives that Revitalize

Sun StorageTek T10000B and T9840D tape drives can enhance the performance of newer tape libraries, or super charge older ones. With a simple drive upgrade, you can revitalize your existing tape libraries and ready your organization for future data challenges.


Reliable Disk

Interested in methods to make your business more dependable and run faster? Sun's portfolio provides just the answer.

  • Sun StorageTek 9990V
    Consolidate and boost performance with embedded virtualization and partitioning.
  • Sun StorageTek 9985V
    Gain all the features of the Sun StorageTek 9990V–in a flexible, modular package.

Faster, More Impactful ROI

Improved performance is not the only benefit that comes from upgrading. Here's more:

  • $675,000 in Savings, ROI of 236%*
    That's the kind of breakthrough economics an existing Sun customer could experience over a five-year period, when upgrading their Powderhorn 9310 library and T9840A drives to an SL8500 library and T9840D drives.
  • $389,000 in Savings, ROI of 134%*
    That's the kind of breakthrough economics an existing IBM customer could expect over a five-year period, when trading in a pair of their IBM libraries and LTO2 drives for an SL3000 library and LTO4 drives.
  • $215,000 in Savings, ROI of 106%*
    That's the kind of breakthrough economics an existing Quantum customer could expect over a five-year period, when trading in an i2000 library and LTO2 drives for an SL3000 library and LTO4 drives.
*Illustrative example only. Actual results may vary.


Migration Services

To assist with migrating from a Powderhorn 9310 Tape Library to an SL8500 or SL3000, be sure to utilize Sun Professional Services to help ease the transition.

Sun recommends two services: