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BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Exabyte Corp today announced that Sun Microsystems Inc. will begin shipping
Exabyte's Mammoth 8mm Tape Drive and Mammoth 220 8mm Tape Library to its own customer base. With this move, Sun
adds the newest generation of Exabyte 8mm technology to its current roster of Exabyte tape storage offerings available with the
Sun Ultra Enterprise server product line.
"Our addition of Mammoth technology holds numerous benefits for our installed base of 8mm customers," said Ed Turner,
Sun's director of marketing. "First, the higher performance and capacity offered by Mammoth technology addresses their
constantly growing storage needs. In addition, due to the backward compatibility offered by Mammoth, the investments our
customers have made in previous generations of Exabyte 8mm products are protected.
"Our selection of Mammoth technology also recognizes the outstanding support Exabyte has provided to Sun since the
beginning of our partnership," Turner added.
Mammoth is Exabyte's newest 8mm tape drive. It stores up to 40 gigabytes of data per single data cartridge at a transfer rate
of 6 megabytes per second.* These amounts represent a 6x performance advance, and a nearly 3x capacity increase, over the
previous generation of Exabyte 8mm tape drive technology. The fastest tape drive in its class available today, Mammoth
enables the end user to back up twice as much data in an hour (21 gigabytes) as its closest competitor. Developed and
designed entirely by Exabyte, Mammoth features extremely high reliability (200,000 hours mean-time-between-failure) and is
compatible with virtually all of the more than one million Exabyte 8mm tape drives in use in the field today. Mammoth is
designed to provide high- capacity and rapid backup for storage-intensive applications such as large databases, transaction
processing, imaging and multimedia.
In addition to the Mammoth 8mm Tape Drive, Sun will now offer the Mammoth 220 8mm Tape Library, the newest addition
to Exabyte's library family. Designed to completely automate data storage and retrieval, the 220 combines two Mammoth
drives, space for 20 data cartridges, and advanced robotics in a compact, space-saving enclosure. The 220 stores up to 800
gigabytes of data at an aggregate transfer rate of 43.2 gigabytes per hour. Other features of the 220 include a very low
cost-per-megabyte, high reliability (750,000 mean- cycles-between-failure), a standard bar-code reader, user-friendly LCD
interfaces and operating panels, a modular design for quick and easy product servicing, and availability in either a deskside or
rack-mount configuration.
"Sun's qualification and offering of our Mammoth tape drives and libraries will be welcome news to its many existing 8mm
customers and, along with the endorsement of a rapidly growing list of other computer and video equipment manufacturers,
validates our high-performance strategy and business model," commented Peter Behrendt, Exabyte's chairman of the board,
president and chief executive officer. "We are excited by this added dimension to our relationship with Sun, already consistently
one of our two largest OEM customers."
On Oct. 4, 1996, Exabyte announced that it had been honored by Sun with an Outstanding Supplier award. Exabyte was one
of only 10 companies selected by Sun -- from among a field of over 600 total vendors -- to receive the prestigious annual
award. Selection is based upon consistently providing Sun with outstanding levels of product quality, support, technology and
materials.
Headquartered in Boulder, Colo., Exabyte Corp. designs, manufactures and markets a full range of tape storage products:
8mm and minicartridge tape drives, 8mm and 4mm tape libraries, and recording media. Exabyte is the world's largest
independent manufacturer focused solely on tape storage products, which it markets through OEMs (original equipment
manufacturers), distributors and resellers.
* -- All capacities and transfer rates cited in this press release are compressed, and assume a 2:1 compression ratio.
Exabyte is a registered trademark of Exabyte Corp. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their
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