Sun Open Storage 
Sun's Open Storage is groundbreaking technology revolutionising enterprise storage. With Open Storage you can simplify, get flexibility, increase energy efficiency, increase performance yet cut costs, but the key is the open-ness it brings to the once lock-in storage market. Sun says it "combines open-source software with industry-standard hardware, enabling you to reduce your reliance on high-priced systems and save up to 70% on storage costs". That has to be Good News.
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What exactly is it you may well ask? An open source data storage platform on which you can mix and match hardware and software to meet your needs and to take advantage of the latest and future innovations. Sun components are the OpenSolaris operating system, the SunFire server family, Sun J4000 storage arrays and the Sun Storage 7000 Unified storage arrays. Key features are:
- Fexibility to scale, change configuration, utilise infrastructure better
- Developers can use free open source OpenSolaris for new applications
- Deploys in Solaris, Linux, Microsoft, and VMware environments
- Solid backing from Sun and a committed community.
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Blogs are buzzing with awesome test results on this new platform and the way it opens up storage to user mixing. The Sun storage 7000 series give amazing performance, out-doing competitors by 100%, has nice easy-to-use graphical tools to support storage optimisation. Clever use of hybrid storage pools (DRAM, SSD's,HDD's) gives I/O bottleneck reduction and impressive speed improvements. Superlatives all around, especially on ROI with much lower costs per Gb than comparable appliances.
In summary Open Storage is all about more and less. More of performance, flexibility, scalability, simplicity and ease of use. Less energy usage, space usage, and last but not least, less in data storage costs.
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