 "Oracle Launches StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive")
Oracle has announced the release of StorageTek T10000C tape drive. Targeted to be high on capacity and performance, and low on TCO at one-third to one-fifth the floor space of any tiered storage, archive or backup solution, the new offering will help in further strengthening Oracle’s position in the enterprise storage market.
As enterprise customers continue to grapple with unabated data growth, extremely long retention periods, short backup windows, as well as budget and floor space constraints, they are constantly looking for high-capacity and cost-effective tape solutions enabling them greater efficiency for their backup, archive and recovery needs. The StorageTek T10000C tape drive along with the StorageTek SL8500 and SL3000 enterprise libraries, help in addressing these customer requirements.
The StorageTek T10000C comes with a 5TB native capacity and 240MB/second native throughput – more than 3x the capacity, and 50 to 70 percent faster than any other tape drive. Oracle’s StorageTek tape storage solutions are the first to scale to an exabyte (1000 PB, with 2:1 compression) to handle the world’s largest archive and long-term backup requirements. The solutions include in-line encryption which provides the critical data protection that enterprise customers demand while remaining completely transparent to the application and without any performance degradation.
The solution has been further integrated with Oracle Software for Open Systems and Mainframe Environments. For open systems archives, Oracle’s Sun Storage Archive Manager software provides simple, policy-based management of data across disk and tape tiers. Paired with the Oracle Exadata Database Machine, the StorageTek T10000C shortens the backup window by 33 percent.
For open systems backup, Oracle’s StorageTek tape drives are qualified with Oracle Secure Backup software as well as with industry-leading backup software as part of a disk-to-disk-to-tape (D-D-T) architecture. For mainframe environments, the StorageTek T10000C is fully supported by Oracle’s StorageTek Virtual Storage Manager, which provides the unique capability of policy-based management across Fibre Channel disk, SAS disk, fast access tape, and high capacity tape.
Further, the StorageTek T10000C tape drive provides an integrated data protection solution with Oracle 11g Recovery Manager, Oracle Secure Backup and Oracle’s Sun Storage Archive Manager software running with Oracle Solaris and Oracle Linux, and Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers, Oracle’s Sun Fire x86 clustered systems and Oracle’s Sun Storage and Oracle’s StorageTek Tape.
The new tape drive also runs with leading third-party operating systems, open systems storage management products and mainframe storage management software.
“The release of the StorageTek T10000C tape drive reaffirms Oracle’s undisputed leadership in tape technology,” said James Cates, vice president, Hardware Development, Oracle. “The StorageTek T10000C sets the new standard in tape by storing over three times more data on a single cartridge than any other tape drive. Combining it with the StorageTek SL3000 and SL8500 libraries helps ensure that customers, regardless of size, can afford to retain critical data without concern for future scalability.”