Cut costs. Reduce risk. Enable business. The powerful Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system delivers unprecedented value through reliability, consolidation, cost-savings and extreme scalability. It's the eco-friendly choice to your most insatiable data storage demands.
At a Glance
Consolidates your smaller tape libraries into one high-performance system
Combines mainframe, super-computing, UNIX, Linux, and Windows data
Modular, scalable capacity for rapid growth and regulatory compliance
Scales from 29 terabytes to 70 petabytes with up to 70,000 tape slots1
Gives you data growth without disruption to enhance top-line revenue and reduce financial risk
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The Sun StorageTek Tape Libraries can reduce power and energy costs and save you money. Using consolidation strategies and higher performance and capacity tape drives, our tape libraries are fast, secure, and efficient, and can dramatically reduce your cost per GB of storage. They're ideal for long-term, eco-responsible data protection and archive, and can help you keep your business in the green.
The SL8500 reduces the threat of downtime, especially those unexpected outages that threaten business continuity. Its architecture offers hot-swappable and fully redundant components, including multiple robots, designed to help keep the library system up and running. Add slots and tape drives easily without scheduling downtime.
1Future scalability is planned beyond 70,000 tape slots.
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Consolidate Storage Infrastructure and Create a Greener Datacenter Sun's latest tape drive and tape library solutions can help companies grow automated tape environments without disruption, and consolidate mainframe and open system operating environments while minimizing power, floor space, and operating costs.
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Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System
Virtual Tour
Have a look inside the innovative Sun StorageTek SL8500 Modular Library System and explore its features and design in detail.
Join Tom Wultich, Sr. Product Manager, in a walk-around tour of the SL8500 features and how they can help you realize cost savings and higher availability in your data center.
With extreme scalability and support for mixed media and diverse operating environments, the Sun StorageTek SL8500 modular library system is unsurpassed in its ability to consolidate multiple small libraries into one high-performance, easily managed storage system that can grow with budget and requirements.
