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Sun Microsystems Earns Top Rankings in Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Awards

Posted on: Thursday, 19 January 2006, 12:00 CST

LOUISVILLE, Colo., Jan. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sun Microsystems today announced that its StorageTek(TM) SL-Series tape libraries achieved the number one overall ranking via the Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Award program in the enterprise-class library category. Sun's StorageTek L-Series tape libraries secured the number two overall ranking in the midrange library category as part of this award program, featured in the January 2006 issue of Storage magazine.

The Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Awards are designed to quantify real world experience factors by surveying IT professionals directly. For the tape library award program, 554 product evaluations from 383 respondents were assessed across five main categories: sales competence, product features, initial quality, reliability and technical support.

Among the findings from this survey, respondents ranked Sun's StorageTek SL-Series and its L-Series tape libraries number one in their respective categories in terms of the value these products deliver for the money. Sun's StorageTek SL-Series libraries were also ranked number one by survey respondents for reliability, technical support, and ease of backup/recovery management in the enterprise-class library category. Perhaps most notably, besting all other product entries in the enterprise-class library category, 88.1% of Sun StorageTek SL-Series users said they'd buy the product again.

StorageTek automated tape libraries from Sun Microsystems continue to set the standard for enterprise-class performance and reliability, leading the tape storage automation market with the fastest, highest-quality, most space-efficient technology available today. These advanced tape libraries help customers better manage and protect data with highly productive, consolidated storage and archiving. For more information about StorageTek tape libraries from Sun Microsystems, visit http://www.storagetek.com/products/category_page2000.html .

In November 2005, Sun Microsystems' StorageTek D-series and FlexLine(TM) FLA 200/300 series earned top honors in the midrange disk array category of the Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Award program, achieving the number one ranking across all five survey categories. For more information about Sun Microsystems' StorageTek D-series and FlexLine FLA 200/300 series, visit http://www.storagetek.com/products/category_page2004.html .

According to Storage Magazine, "Looking at the results from our various Quality Awards -- StorageTek's ranking in this tape library survey, StorageTek's win among midrange disk arrays and Sun's strong second-place showing among enterprise-class storage arrays -- one would have to conclude that the Sun/StorageTek combination bodes well for storage users." (Storage magazine, January 2006 issue, Volume 4, Number 11).

About The Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Awards

The Diogenes Labs-Storage Magazine Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality in reliability in actual use. The results are derived from a survey of qualified Storage readers, who assessed products in five main categories: sales competence, product features, initial quality, reliability and technical support. Their methodology incorporates statistically valid polling that eliminates market share as a factor. Their objective is to identify the most reliable products on the market regardless of vendor name, reputation or size. Products are rated on a scale from 1.0 to 8.0, where 8.0 is the most favorable possible score. For more information about this awards program, visit http://www.storagemagazine.com/.

About Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com/ .

NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Solaris, Java, StorageTek, and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

For more information: Chris Drago Sun Microsystems, Inc. 303-661-2262 Chris.Drago@sun.com Stacey Infantino Sun Microsystems, Inc. 650-786-3115 stacey.infantino@sun.com

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

CONTACT: Chris Drago, +1-303-661-2262, or Chris.Drago@sun.com, or StaceyInfantino, +1-650-786-3115, or stacey.infantino@sun.com, both of SunMicrosystems, Inc.

Web site: http://www.storagemagazine.com/

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Source: PRNewswire-FirstCall

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