Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek or STK, earlier STC) was a data storage technology company headquartered in

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. New products include

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systems, which it calls "information lifecycle management" (ILM). Its remaining product line is now part of Oracle Corporation, and marketed as Oracle StorageTek, with a focus on tape backup equipment and software to manage storage systems.

History

In 1969 four former IBM engineers—

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, Juan Rodriguez, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and Zoltan Herger—founded the Storage Technology Corporation. The headquarters was in Louisville, Boulder County, Colorado. In the 1970s, StorageTek launched its Disk Products division. After a failed attempt to develop an IBM-compatible mainframe, and an optical disk product line, the company filed for

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bankruptcy protection in 1984. Starting in 1987, new management invested in an automated tape library product line that "picked" tapes from a silo-like contraption with a robot arm. StorageTek emerged as a dominant player in that market. StorageTek acquired Documation (1980),

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(1989),

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(1995), and Storability (2005). Storage Technology Corporation was officially renamed "StorageTek" in 1983.

Sun Microsystems

In June 2005, Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced it would purchase StorageTek for US$4.1 billion in cash, or $37.00 per share. In August 2005, the acquisition was completed.

Oracle

On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion. The StorageTek product line was renamed "Oracle StorageTek".

Products

Disk array A disk array is a disk storage system which contains multiple disk drives. It is differentiated from a disk enclosure, in that an array has cache memory and advanced functionality, like RAID, deduplication, encryption and virtualization. Compo ...

: ST9990, ST9985, ST6540, ST6140, Iceberg, IBM RVA, SVA, BradeStor, FLX380, FLX280, FLX240, FLX210, D178, 9176, 9153, 9140, 9130 *Disk drives: STK 8000 SuperDisk, STK8350, STK8650, STK N2700 * Fibre Channel, SAS, RAID and SCSI HBAs. *

Tape drives A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape. Magnetic tape data storage is typically used for offline, archival data storage. Tape media generally has a favorable unit cost and a long archival stability. A ...

: STC 2450, STC 2470, STC 3400, STC 3600, StorageTek 4670, StorageTek 4480, 4490, 9490, SD-3, 9840, T9840B, T9840C, T9840D, T9940, T9940B, T10000A, T10000B, T10000C, T10000D *Tape drives (rebranded): LTO, SDLT, DLT *

Tape libraries In computer storage, a tape library, sometimes called a tape silo, tape robot or tape jukebox, is a storage device that contains one or more tape drives, a number of slots to hold tape cartridges, a barcode reader to identify tape cartridges ...

: 4400, 9310, 9360, 9710, 9714, 9730, 9740, 9738, L20, L40, L80, L180, L700, L700e, L5500, SL500, SL3000, SL8500, SL150, SL4000 * Virtual tape libraries: VSM1, VSM2, VSM3, VSM4, VSM5, VSM6 *

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: StorageTek (Documation) 5000

Product timeline

* 1970 - StorageTek releases its first product, the 2450/2470 tape drive. * 1971 - StorageTek introduces the 3400 tape storage device. * 1973 - StorageTek's disk division is founded. * 1974 - StorageTek's first 3600 tape drive ships. * 1975 - StorageTek ships the first 8000 Super Disk and announces the 8350 disk subsystem. * 1978 - StorageTek develops the first solid-state disk. * 1984 - StorageTek develops the first intelligent disk. * 1986 - StorageTek develops the first cached disk. * 1987 - StorageTek develops tape automation and emerges from

. * 1994 - StorageTek introduces virtual disk, Iceberg. * 1998 - StorageTek introduces Flexline disk arrays. * 2001 - StorageTek introduces virtual networking. * 2002 - StorageTek introduces BladeStore, a disk array based on ATA disk technology. * 2003 - StorageTek introduces the EchoView data protection appliance, a disk-based appliance that eliminates the backup window. * 2003 - StorageTek introduces the StreamLine

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modular library system. * 2012 - Oracle introduces the Streamline SL150 modular library system. * 2013 - Oracle introduces the T10000D 8.5TB/252Mbit/s tape drive

References

External links

Oracle StorageTek product website
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