Today's data centres are experiencing exponentially growing data rates with flat to declining budgets. CIOs and data centre managers need highly available access to data and the assurance that the media upon which they are storing data is both reliable and secure. In addition, they need to consolidate floor space and lower power requirements. Sun's new highly innovative tape solutions help customers to minimize costs through better performance and capacity.

"Sun has again delivered on its promise to help customers achieve greater data centre efficiency and raised the bar on the industry by bringing the world's first one terabyte tape storage drive to market", stated Jason Schaffer, senior director, storage marketing, Sun Microsystems. "The high capacity Sun StorageTek T10000B tape drive works with the fast access Sun StorageTek T9840D tape drive to optimize customers' multi-tiered storage architecture and cut data centre space requirements in half."

The T10000B protects customers' investments and maximizes IT return on investment by providing the second generation of media re-use and backward read/write compatibility; therefore, allowing customers who have standardized on Sun StorageTek T10000 media family to gain double capacity on existing cartridges. With the enterprise-class T10000 platform's proven reliability and availability in high duty cycle environments, customer data centers will be equipped for 24x7 operations.