Is the Sun StorageTek Virtual Tape Library Plus (VTL Plus) better than other VTLs on the market? By far. An affordable midrange appliance, StorageTek VTL Plus 1.0 and the new StorageTek VTL Plus 2.0 lead in buffer capacity, configuration flexibility, and reliability. Sun Fire servers and the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) lock in data protection. Plus, Sun is the only vendor to offer full back-end physical tape integration.

The Sun Upgrade Advantage Program provides trade-in incentives for upgrading existing Sun and competitive tape libraries and arrays to the new Sun StorageTek VTL 2.0 Virtual Tape Library, with upfront savings of 5%.

• Extends scalability, security, and backup host integration
• Provides 64K virtual tape cartridges per node
• Twice as many virtual libraries/ drives as VTL Plus 1.0
• Tape shredding ensures virtual tape security
• Includes NDMP 4.0 for NetBackup 6.5 integration
• Integrates with soon-to-be-announced de-duplication appliance
• Supports consolidation

The Sun StorageTek VTL Plus 2.0 improves the performance and reliability of existing backup and recovery application processes by presenting a variety of virtual tape drives, libraries, and tape cartridges to those applications. StorageTek VTL Plus 2.0 has improved business operations and data protection for numerous organizations by closing backup windows and ensuring that mission-critical data is protected.

Resources

• UAP Trade-in Calculator
• VTL 2.0 Product Information

For full UAP Terms & Conditions, please visit http://www.sun.com/tradeins/terms.jsp.