Tape Products/Software
Tape and tape automation continue to be critical components of data protection and management strategies. Tape and tape automation companies constantly improve capacity and performance with improvements in drive and automation technology. At the same time software technologies such as tape virtualization are enabling increased performance, capacity use and cost savings in both mainframe and heterogeneous computing environments.
PeakData has partnered with the leading tape and tape automation manufacturer in the world, Sun Microsystems, by virtue of its StorageTek product offering. We offer the full range of StorageTek tape products for mainframe and other platforms.
Automated Tape Libraries
The StreamLine™ SL8500 modular library system is Sun StorageTek’s flagship enterprise tape library. It is designed specifically to meet your data protection and archiving requirements. With its industry-leading reliability and accessibility, the SL8500 helps you mitigate risk and enable business continuity. It gives you the confidence that your data will be there when you need it, protected and accessible.
The StreamLine™ SL500 modular library system is designed to meet mid-range data protection and archiving requirements with the market’s most scalable, rack mounted tape automation solution. By balancing your current storage needs with future requirements, the SL500 helps increase your return on investment and keeps you from overspending today.
The L1400M helps you save money by better aligning the cost of protecting your data with its value. And with its ability to seamlessly support a wide range of drive technologies, the L1400M enables you to quickly respond to changing business needs.
The Sun StorageTek® L700e tape library -- with up to 678 slots in a single-frame configuration or 1,344 slots in a dual frame configuration -- is designed to grow with your business. This extremely scalable automated tape library is ideal for larger distributed, Open Systems, UNIX and Windows NT environments.
Looking for a better way to protect your business-critical data? Need to save valuable rack space? The rack-ready Sun StorageTek SL48 Tape Library is the ideal choice for backup and restore, archiving, and disaster recovery, providing you with the reliability, simplicity, and value of high-capacity, automated backup and recovery in a space-efficient form factor. Plus, it’s easy to install, manage, and use.
Need cost-effective high-capacity backup and recovery? Constrained by space? The Sun StorageTek SL24 Tape Autoloader provides you with the reliability, simplicity, and value of high-capacity automated backup and recovery in an easy-to-use, rack-ready, space-efficient form factor.
Need SDLT compatibility? The StorageTek C4 Tape Library provides you with an entry-level, SDLT-compatible library offering up to 25.6 TB in a compact, 4U form factor. And the higher throughput of the DLT-S4 drives makes meeting overnight backup windows a snap.
Designed for entry-level backup and restore, the SDLT-compatible StorageTek C2 Autoloader provides up to 12.8 TB in a compact, 2U form factor. And the higher-throughput DLT-S4 drives make meeting overnight backup windows a breeze.
Tape Drives
StorageTek® leads the industry in tape drive options, offering the gamut of enterprise-class tape technologies to meet every need. You can even mix and match tape drives in our tape libraries to align your storage needs to your data. All of our tape drives are easy to install, manage and maintain.
The Sun StorageTek™ T10000 tape drive is designed with three results in mind: boost efficiency as a way to reduce cost, mitigate risk associated with data protection and reduce complexity to improve the use of business information The T10000 tape drive raises the bar on efficiency through advancements in capacity, throughput, and media reusability. It helps mitigate risk through multiple reliability enhancements as well as VolSafe™ secure media technology. And it introduces simplicity in high duty cycle enterprise and open systems environments by integrating easily with other Sun solutions and third-party solutions.
The StorageTek® enterprise-class, access-centric T9840C tape drive is a critical component of a company-wide, tiered approach to storage that helps you achieve the cost-saving efficiencies associated with information lifecycle management. It can reduce your total cost of ownership by enabling you to align the value of your data with the cost of protecting it. And when you integrate the T9840C with StorageTek’s VolSafe® secure media technology, you will have a cost-effective archiving solution that helps you meet the most stringent electronic storage regulatory and legal requirements, including those of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
StorageTek’s T9940B enterprise-class tape drive helps you cost-effectively protect and archive your mission-critical data and support your disaster recovery applications. You can reduce your total cost of ownership by storing data on high-performance, capacity-centric tape instead of higher-cost disk or less-efficient tape. And the T9940 is built for reliability, so you can be confident that your data will be there when you need it.
Enabling regulatory compliance is also easy with the T9940B drive. It supports VolSafe® secure media technology, the industry’s leading WORM-based tape storage solution.
Economical and fast. Sun StorageTek LTO drives provide fast data transfer and large capacity for midrange tape automation environments. Plus, WORM (write once, read many) -capable media integration allows you to meet stringent regulatory demands. The result is an economical and high-performance tape drive delivering value to midrange IT operations.
You can meet your growing business and performance requirements with the expansion-friendly Sun StorageTek SDLT and DLT-S4 family of tape drives. Designed for customers who have standardized on DLT or SDLT formats, SDLT and DLT-S4 tape drives extend the value proposition of DLT tape storage for midrange companies and offer more than enough performance to keep up with most storage system infrastructures and scale from a single drive to an automation system.
Tape Media
Sun StorageTek offers you a wide spectrum of tape drive and media choices designed to help you inprove operations and reduce risk while containing costs.
Device Software
StorageTek provides a full range of tape management and administration software to improve efficiencies and productivity of your automated tape libraries. The software streamlines management, helps you leverage your investments in technology and promotes ease-of-use through automation.