corporation type computer & cloud solutions industry computer hardware software founded 1969 headquarters oracle parkway redwood shores california 94065 key people safra a. catz ceo ; mark hurd ceo products data storage hardware and software professional and support services revenue 2.2 billion usd 2004 number of employees 7000 2004 website http www.oracle.com us products servers storage storage 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 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 product timeline 3 references 4 external links history edit 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 . products edit 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 9840 c 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 edit 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 8.5 tb 252mbps tape drive references edit fundinguniverse.com history of storage technology corporation buying storagetek sun s last big gamble . cnet news . 2 june 2005 . retrieved 21 june 2011 . oracle completes acquisition of sun . yahoo . 27 january 2010 . retrieved 27 january 2010 . external links edit oracle.com oracle storagetek website v t e hard disk drive manufacturers history of hard disk drives present seagate technology toshiba western digital hgst past computer memories inc. conner peripherals control data corporation digital equipment corporation excelstor technology fujitsu hewlett packard ibm iomega jt storage jvc kalok kyocera maxtor memorex micropolis miniscribe mitsubishi electric nec plus development prairietek priam corporation quantum rodime samsung electronics sony storage technology corporation syquest texas instruments v t e oracle corporation corporate directors jeffrey berg h. raymond bingham michael boskin safra a. catz larry ellison h ctor garc a molina joseph grundfest jeffrey o. henley mark hurd jack f. kemp donald l. lucas naomi o. seligman acquisitions list sun peoplesoft hyperion siebel bea jd edwards rightnow virtual iron timesten retek sunopsis netsuite dbms oracle database mysql innodb berkeley db timesten rdb 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