Storage Technology Corp has subsumed its XL/Datacomp Inc acquisition in Lisle, Illinois into a unified mid-range marketing organisation in a skake-up intended to increase its focus on the open-systems distributed computing market. The new StorageTek Distributed Systems Division Inc also includes the marketing, sales and service units of Lago Systems Inc, a Los Gatos, California developer and manufacturer of tape library systems that StorageTek acquired in 1992. The new unit will be based in Lisle, and will offer the the AS/400 products and services formerly marketed by XL/Datacomp and other storage systems for the mid-range market.Offerings will include a full line of Nearline automated tape libraries, including the machine-independent WolfCreek 9360 and a new library for Unix workstations and personal computer networks; the NearNet hardware-software combination managing such storage; a variety of performance-scalable disk subsystems, including the Northfield 9638 and Nordique 9100 with Shared Storage Resource for mainframe, Unix and desktop environments; Unix systems from Hewlett-Packard Co and Bull HN Information Systems Inc integrated with StorageTek products; data management software for multi-host tape management and other functions for AS/400s connected to StorageTek automated tape libraries, and client software to provide attachment of AS/400 processors to libraries; lease financing deals and services.
