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StreamLine™ SL8500 modular library system
 

StorageTek, the tape automation pioneer, introduces the StreamLine™ modular library system. This next generation series of automated tape libraries will be available in Spring 2004. The StreamLine™ SL8500 modular library system is the first offering in the StreamLine™ series. Designed with direct feedback from our high-end enterprise customers, it will scale from 1,500 to over 200,000 cartridges making it the largest MVS and Open Systems library available in the storage market. The SL8500 library will provide superior reliability, availability and serviceability along with unmatched performance through redundancy, hot-swap components and multiple robots. The SL8500 library will attach into mainframe, supercomputer, UNIX and Windows environments, supporting a variety of enterprise tape drive technologies. The SL8500 library supports high-performance StorageTek T9840 and T9940 tape drives as well as mid-range products from Quantum (SDLT) and HP, IBM and Certance (LTO). It will also support future technologies (NGD) from StorageTek.

 
Benefits
24 x forever operation
Various levels of redundancy for multiple components makes the system's overall availability nearly 100 percent.
High performance
Fast and multiple robotics can handle unpredicted peak workloads and future demands.
Ease of management
Share the library across servers and applications - and mix multiple drives and media types - without requiring management of partitions.
Number of tape drives, types
One to two LTO Ultrium Generation 1 and 2, SDLT 220 and 320, DLT 8000 drives or a combination

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