Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek or STK, earlier STC) was a

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technology company headquartered in Louisville, Colorado. New products include data retention systems, which it calls "information lifecycle management" (ILM). Its remaining product line is now part of

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, 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— Jesse Aweida, 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), Aspen Peripherals Corporation (1989), Network Systems Corporation (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 Fibre Channel (FC) is a high-speed data transfer protocol providing in-order, lossless delivery of raw block data. Fibre Channel is primarily used to connect computer data storage to servers in storage area networks (SAN) in commercial data cen ...

, SAS, RAID and SCSI HBAs. * Tape drives: 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 LTO may refer to: Science and technology * Linear Tape-Open, a computer storage magnetic tape format * Link-time optimization, a technique used by compilers to optimize software * Low Temperature Oxide, a form of silicon dioxide used in microfabri ...

, 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 * Printer : 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 A solid-state drive (SSD) is a solid-state storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies to store data persistently, typically using flash memory, and functioning as secondary storage in the hierarchy of computer storage. It is a ...

. * 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 SL8500 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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