Oracle's StorageTek SL 150
Modular Tape Library

The first scalable tape library designed for small, medium and growing businesses

Built from Oracle software and StorageTek library technology, the StorageTek SL150 modular tape library delivers an industry-leading combination of ease of use and scalability. Ideal for backup and archival applications, it will save you time and money, setting the new standard for entry tape automation.

Make Storage Simplicity a Priority with StorageTek SL 150

The StorageTek SL150 emphasizes simplicity and reduces costs through exceptional scalability, common storage management tools and do-it-yourself installation and upgrades.The easy-to-use remote browser GUI, built from Oracle software, helps streamline library management and allows you to perform library operations, manage library settings, and proactively monitor the library’s health.With the StorageTek SL150, simplicity begins with the library installation and continues throughout the life of the product, even as you expand for data growth. The library can be initialized in a few steps via the local touchscreen operator panel, and upgrades are easy, since they require no tools, complicated cabling, or technical support.

Key Features of StorageTek SL 150

• Remote management capability and an installation wizard ensure swift installation and ease of use
• Scalability from 30 to 300 cartridge slots enables capacity to reach nearly one PB (compressed) with the use of StorageTek LTO 5 half height tape drives
• Expansion modules offer seamless performance and capacity increase, by easily upgrading tape drives and adding cartridges. 

Key Benefits of StorageTek SL 150

• Reduce complexity—the tape library is customer installable and upgradable
• Reduce costs with low-cost scalability, reliability, and entry-level pricing
• Enable consolidation of small tape libraries into one scalable tape library

SL 150 Scales Seamlessly Up to 10x More Than Comparable Tape Libraries

The StorageTek SL150 modular tape library scales up to 10x, from 30 to 300 slots, without consuming significant time and resources. In addition, it is the only library in the world that auto-discovers new modules via USB. In the entry to midrange market segment, the StorageTek SL150 modular tape library offers higher density and lower-cost scaling than comparable products. Higher density saves valuable space and enables you to store more data in the library.

The StorageTek SL150 modular tape library’s base module provides up to 45 TB (with StorageTek LTO 5 half-height tape drives) and each expansion module adds an additional 45TB of capacity as your storage needs grow. With two additional tape drives per expansion module, the StorageTek SL150 also allows for increased performance as storage needs grow.

Count Your Savings with StorageTek SL 150 from Acardia

The market-leading scalability of the StorageTek SL150 modular tape library offers an important cost-saving advantage. Competitive systems require you to transition among three separate and distinct products in order to grow from an entry to a midrange library. Oracleoffers the first library that can address the full breadth of scale from 30 to 300 slots with a single product.

As a result, the StorageTek SL150 negates the need to rip and replace smaller, individual products as your storage needs grow. In addition, single-product scalability saves media,drives, servicing, power, cooling, and other management costs. Scalability also allows you to do more with less by consolidating multiple libraries into a single product that is far lessexpensive than replacing libraries over time.

Oracle’s tape encryption helps you minimize your exposure to potentially costly litigationwhile you support regulatory and compliance policies. When you use StorageTek LTO 5 halfheighttape drives from HP with the StorageTek SL150, you can utilize Oracle Key Manager to achieve simple, scalable, enterprise-class data encryption. Oracle Key Manager centrallyauthorizes, secures, and manages all of your encryption keys, reducing exposure of sensitivedata and ensuring reliability and security.

For more than 40 years, customers have trusted StorageTek reliability and quality. Oracle’s StorageTek SL150 modular tape library leverages technology and design from the award winning StorageTek SL500 modular tape library, and it provides StorageTek reliability at anentry-level price point. Furthermore, by working with an end-to-end Oracle solution provider like Acardia, you can reduce management and service costs.

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