Storage Technology Corporation

Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek or STK; aka STC until about 1983), is a data storage technology company headquartered in Redwood Shores, San Francisco Bay Area, California. ^[1]

Now owned by Oracle Corporation, it has been renamed Oracle StorageTek.

with a focus on tape backup equipment and software to manage storage systems. New products include data retention systems, which they call information lifecycle management, or ILM. , StorageTek is

History

In 1969 four former IBM engineers: Jesse Aweida, Juan Rodriguez, Thomas S. Kavanagh, and Zoltan Herger, founded the Storage Technology Corporation.

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 bankruptcy protection in 1984. New management invested in an automated tape library system that 'picked' tapes with a robot arm and stored them in a silo-like contraption in 1987.

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.^[2] In August 2005, the acquisition was completed.

Oracle

On January 27, 2010, Sun Microsystems, Inc. was acquired by Oracle Corporation for US$7.4 billion, based on an agreement signed on April 20, 2009.^[3] It was renamed Oracle StorageTek.

Famous Employees

The company is better known for one of its most famous employees, Arthur F. Witulski, who took the company to greater heights after it came out of bankruptcy in 1987. Witulski joined the company after completing his B.S. from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1988. Within one year of joining, he became extremely well regarded in the power electronics community. He later completed his PhD from University of Colorado Boulder and joined the University of Arizona Tucson as an Associate Professor in 1989.^[4]

Products

• Disk array: ST9990, ST9985, ST6540, ST6140, Iceberg, IBM RVA, SVA.
• Disk drives: STK 8000 SuperDisk, STK8350, STK8650, STK N2700
• Fibre Channel, SAS, RAID and SCSI HBAs.
• Tape drives: STC 2450, STC 2470, STC 3400, STC 3600, StorageTek 4670, StorageTek 4480, 4490, 9490, SD-3, 9490, 9940, 9840C, T9840D, T10000A, T10000B, T10000C, T10000D
• Tape drives (rebranded): LTO, SDLT, DLT
• Tape libraries: 4400, 9310, 9710, 9714, 9730, 9740, L20, L40, L80, L700, L700e,L5500 L180, SL500, SL3000, SL8500, SL150
• Virtual Tape libraries: VSM1, VSM2, VSM3, VSM4, VSM5, VSM6
• Printer : StorageTek 5000

Product timeline

Storagetek library

Inside view of a Powderhorn library

• 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 a solid-state disk.
• 1984 - StorageTek develops the first intelligent disk.
• 1986 - StorageTek develops the first cached disk.
• 1987 - StorageTek develops tape automation and emerges from Chapter 11.
• 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/252MBps tape drive

References

External links

• Oracle.com: Oracle StorageTek website