SL8500

The StreamLine SL8500 modular library system is StorageTek's flagship enterprise tape library. It is designed specifically to meet your data protection and archiving requirements. With its industry-leading reliability and accessibility, the SL8500 helps you mitigate risk and enable business continuity. It gives you the confidence that your data will be there when you need it, protected and accessible

Consolidate data
With extreme scalability and support for mixed media and diverse operating environments, the StreamLine SL8500 modular library system is ideal for consolidating many smaller libraries into one high-performance system.

Share resources
SL8500 library system is designed to work well in mainframe, supercomputing, UNIX, Linux and Windows environments. It supports the enterprise T9840 and T9940 lines of tape drives, along with Linear Tape Open (LTO) Ultrium and Super DLT (SDLT) tape drives.

Increase availability
SL8500 can be upgraded with additional drives and cartridge slots, without the need for system downtime. Redundant, hot-swappable robotics, power and electronic components maximize your system availability.

Increase throughput
High-performance robotics let the SL8500 modular library help you keep pace with unpredictable workload spikes and future throughput needs.

Grow with ease
The SL8500 modular library can scale from 1,448 slots to more than 300,000 slots —easily handling years of explosive growth in your storage requirements.

Save space
With its extremely high slot density, the SL8500 offers a lot of storage in a very small footprint. Make the most of your current data center.

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SL500

The StreamLine SL500 modular library system is designed to meet mid-range data protection and archiving requirements with the market's most scalable, rack mounted tape automation solution. By balancing your current storage needs with future requirements, the SL500 helps increase your return on investment and keeps you from overspending today

Affordable and scalable
Start with the capacity you need and add cartridge slots or drive bays cost-effectively as your data volumes grow, up to 575 LTO slots or 18 tape drives.

Reliable expansion
The StreamLine SL500 modular library system easily scales in capacity and performance without decreasing reliability to meet changing requirements in your data center.

Lower administrative costs
The enhanced remote management software enables you to manage the library from just about anywhere in the world.

Investment protection
The SAN-ready native Fibre Channel interface enables cost-effective resource sharing and eliminates the need for additional router equipment.