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LOUISVILLE, Colo., 11 November 2004. StorageTek today announces the receipt of an order for the first of the new generation of StorageTek enterprise-scale tape libraries, the StreamLine 8500, on behalf of the U. S. Army Research Laboratory.
The order represents the first SL8500 deployment into the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP). The StorageTek SL8500 will play disaster recovery and mission continuity roles in support of the HPCMP.
The Army Research Laboratory Major Shared Resource Center (ARL MSRC) hosts one of the largest supercomputing facilities in the world, providing DoD researchers a highly productive environment for simulation studies used to develop and improve war-fighting technologies. Today, the ARL-MSRC archives an ever-growing collection of over a hundred terabytes of research and simulation study data using multiple StorageTek 9310 Powderhorn enterprise tape libraries and 9840/9940 tape drives. The new StorageTek SL8500 will serve as a backup archive, providing equivalent data capacity and tape drive capability in a much smaller footprint and with significantly increased reliability.
"The deployment of the SL8500 into the U.S. Army Research Laboratory will provide unprecedented data storage scalability, density, and robustness in support of the DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program," said Thomas Kendall, the chief engineer of the ARL Major Shared Resource Center.
StorageTek enterprise-scale tape technologies are in use at each of the four DoD MSRC's throughout the nation. With tape products engineered for punishing 24x7 duty cycles and maintained by StorageTek's worldwide support, StorageTek is providing the tape technologies of choice for the most demanding customers in the world.
StorageTek (Storage Technology Corporation, NYSE: STK) is a $2 billion global company that enables businesses, through its information lifecycle management strategy, to align the cost of storage with the value of information. The company's innovative storage solutions manage the complexity and growth of information, lower costs, improve efficiency and protect investments. For more information, see www.storagetek.com.
Established in 1996, the ARL MSRC helps the DoD focus and exploit high-performance computing technology for military advantage across the battlespace. This customer-focused, world-class computational facility supports DoD's research and development, science and technology, and test and evaluation communities with some of the world's newest, scalable, parallel computers. These supercomputers feature shared and distributed memory architectures from multiple vendors, including IBM, SGI, and Linux NetworX. Researchers use ARL MSRC facilities to model and simulate systems, explore chemical reactions, study and design weapons systems, analyze sensors and experimental data, and develop new composite materials.
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