SAN On The Edge.Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. , Inc. is shining some light on the edge of Storage Area Networks (SANs) by introducing a pre-configured, customer-ready solution based on the Sun StorEdge T3 array and the new Sun StorEdge network FC switch series. Now, Sun customers have an open SAN solution that is easy to deploy, cost-effective, and designed to scale storage demands. The SAN market is still in its early stages, largely due to the complexity and interoperability barriers inherent in SANs. Sun's strategy is to virtually eliminate the complexity of open storage networks, and the new customer-ready SAN solution delivers. Now, in addition to choosing between working with Sun Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. or purchasing individual components to install SANs, Sun customers can also select a pre-configured solution that is ready to install and easy to manage locally or remotely from a single console. Sun's SAN strategy is based on open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced for maximum interoperability and customer choice. Although the new customer-ready SAN offering has been designed for easy implementation in Solaris operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , Sun is extending support to HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Linux environments. By incorporating Jiro technology, Sun's SAN solution can integrate and interoperate easily with any other Jiro technology-enabled applications or devices on the network. Jiro technology is an open, freely available set of APIs that provides developers with an infrastructure for building interoperable end-to-end storage management solutions for complex, distributed environments. Additionally, this solution includes the new redundant Sun StorEdge 8-port Fibre channel switch In a computer storage field, a Fibre Channel switch is a network switch compatible with Fibre Channel (FC) protocol. It allows the creation of a Fibre Channel fabric, that is currently the core component of most storage area networks. pairs. Sun selected QLogic switch technology for its reference implementation and Sunbranded customer-ready SAN offering. The resulting end-to-end SAN solution delivers full fault-tolerant, fail-over redundancy and capacity from 327GB to 169TB per server. It includes the complete suite of Sun StorEdge software management tools to facilitate the SAN management process, such as volume management with dynamic multipathing for high availability, component management, and switch management. In addition, Sun customers can leverage Sun StorEdge data services software, including Sun StorEdge Instant Image and Sun StorEdge Network Data Replicator See port replicator. replicator - Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot or software, to further enhance business continuance. For those who would like to join Sun on the edge, their SAN solution is now shipping and is priced from $97,700 for a 327GB configuration to $481,900 for a 5.2TB configuration. |
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