Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: www.sun.com/storage/tape_storage/tape_drives/t9940/features.xml

Sun StorageTek T9940B Tape Drive

Features and Benefits

This product has reached end-of-life and is no longer orderable. It is superceded by the next generation Sun StorageTek T10000 Tape Drive.

As application demands cause backup windows to disappear and downtime costs increase, the T9940B tape drive helps IT departments to achieve faster backup and restore performance, cost effectively.

Key Benefits

Supports top-line business growth by affordably and reliably storing greater amounts of critical business data.
Data can be simultaneously vaulted to remote sites for recovery in case of disaster.
Reduces total cost of ownership by storing data on high-performance, capacity-centric tape instead of higher-cost disk or less-efficient tape.

Reduce complexity and simplify SAN management

Expand compatibility

The T9940B simplifies storage management and integrates easily with existing mainframe and open systems platforms and applications. It supports multi-platform connectivity, including native FICON, ESCON and Fibre Channel.

Leverage existing IT infrastructure

The T9940B provides backward-read compatibility with 9940A cartridges. It can rewrite the cartridges with three times more data, for extended investment protection.

Facilitate compliance with regulatory demands

Integrate the T9940 with VolSafe media cartridges and the result in a cost-effective, highly reliable archiving solution that helps address the most stringent electronic storage regulatory and legal requirements, including those of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Improve availability and reliability while increasing productivity

Keep up and running

Like all Sun StorageTek enterprise-class T-series tape drives, the T9940B is designed exclusively for high-duty cycles in automation environments. It delivers exceptional reliability in even the harshest operating conditions.

Increase productivity

The high-capacity T9940B tape drive minimizes cartridge mounts, requires fewer cartridges to manage for disaster recovery and improves automation efficiency. Store more data in less time to meet shrinking batch and backup windows.