Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard is this week expected to be the latest storage stalwart to unveil Fibre Channel-based disk systems and tape libraries, aimed at high-end users. While a mass exodus from the island - dubbed the world disk drive capital...
StorageTek has rolled out Fibre Channel (FC) tape libraries based on its Aegis architecture. Currently 96 per cent of its installed tape base is used for the latter. Pricing for the L700 tape library runs from $92,000 upwards.
The company is hoping to increase its storage area network (SAN) installed base from the 400 sites it currently counts worldwide, and push its Virtual enterprise disk and tape businesses. The storage specialist claims its virtual disk architecture...
Fundamentally, the company [is going] back to focus on its core strengths which are in tape, tape libraries, enterprise disks and SAN," Martin said. Over 50 per cent of the company's revenues are derived from tape storage - a market Martin claims...
HP said it will no longer be using StorageTek's disk arrays or libraries despite a years-long OEM agreement with the vendor, but will instead be using Quantum. Quantum claimed HP will offer support for customers using StorageTek libraries until the...
EMC will resell so-called tape libraries from ADIC. Tape libraries are robotic mechanisms that house a number of magnetic tape drives and cartridges. The maker of disk-based storage systems announced that it will resell tape-based devices from...