Sun Microsystems introduced its T10000 enterprise tape drive as part of the focus on its data management capabilities. The company also unveiled its data storage portfolio that has been created as a result of the recently closed StorageTek acquisition.


Sun introduced the T10000 enterprise tape drive which extends the performance of StorageTek's earlier T-Series drives to provide businesses with fast access to large volumes of information at an attractive price per gigabyte. Delivering the industry's highest native tape drive throughput rate (120 megabytes/second), capacities of up to 500 gigabytes uncompressed - or a terabyte of compressed data on a single cartridge - and Fibre Channel / FICON dual-port connectivity, the T10000 provides a 250% increase in density and 400% increase in throughput speeds over the earlier StorageTek T9940B drive. Future generations of the T10000 will feature expanded capacity up to one terabyte uncompressed on a single cartridge.

Solaris will come together with Sun's advanced identity management solutions and information lifecycle management strategy to help secure data and automate its movement across the entire enterprise. From a risk perspective, one of the most significant value propositions that identity management provides is in-depth and immediate knowledge of 'who' has access to 'what' company information.