Storage Technology Corporation on:
[Wikipedia]
[Google]
[Amazon]
Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek or STK, earlier STC) was a
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.
On January 27, 2010, Sun was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion. The StorageTek product line was renamed "Oracle StorageTek".
Oracle StorageTek product website
{{Authority control Computer storage companies Defunct computer companies of the United States Defunct computer hardware companies Hard disk drives Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Companies based in Redwood Shores, California American companies established in 1969 Computer companies established in 1969 1969 establishments in California Sun Microsystems acquisitions Sun Microsystems hardware Oracle hardware
data storage
Data storage is the recording (storing) of information (data) in a storage medium. Handwriting, phonographic recording, magnetic tape, and optical discs are all examples of storage media. Biological molecules such as RNA and DNA are con ...
technology company headquartered in Louisville, Colorado
The City of Louisville () is a home rule municipality located in southeastern Boulder County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 21,226 at the 2020 United States census. Louisville began as a mining community in 1877, experienc ...
. New products include data retention
Data retention defines the policies of persistent data and records management for meeting legal and business data archival requirements. Although sometimes interchangeable, it is not to be confused with the Data Protection Act 1998.
The differe ...
systems, which it calls "information lifecycle management" (ILM).
Its remaining product line is now part of Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American Multinational corporation, multinational computer technology company headquartered in Austin, Texas. Co-founded in 1977 in Santa Clara, California, by Larry Ellison, who remains executive chairman, Oracle was ...
, and marketed as Oracle StorageTek, with a focus on tape backup equipment and software to manage storage systems.
History
In 1969 four formerIBM
International Business Machines Corporation (using the trademark IBM), nicknamed Big Blue, is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, and present in over 175 countries. It is ...
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 Chapter 11
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code ( Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. Such reorganization, known as Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is available to every business, w ...
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 (computing), cache memory and advanced functionality, like redundant array of independent disks, RAID ...
: 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 Server (computing), servers in storage area networks (SAN) in ...
, 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, SDLT, DLT
* Tape libraries: 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 firstsolid-state disk
A solid-state drive (SSD) is a type of solid-state storage device that uses Integrated circuit, integrated circuits to store data persistence (computer science), persistently. It is sometimes called semiconductor storage device, solid-stat ...
.
* 1984 - StorageTek develops the first intelligent disk.
* 1986 - StorageTek develops the first cached disk.
* 1987 - StorageTek develops tape automation and emerges from Chapter 11
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code ( Title 11 of the United States Code) permits reorganization under the bankruptcy laws of the United States. Such reorganization, known as Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is available to every business, w ...
.
* 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 8.5 TB 252 MB/s tape drive
References
External links
Oracle StorageTek product website
{{Authority control Computer storage companies Defunct computer companies of the United States Defunct computer hardware companies Hard disk drives Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area Companies based in Redwood Shores, California American companies established in 1969 Computer companies established in 1969 1969 establishments in California Sun Microsystems acquisitions Sun Microsystems hardware Oracle hardware