SUN MICROSYSTEMS STORMS NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE MARKET.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. (Nasdaq: SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ) introduced the Sun StorEdge N8000 filer product family, a scalable family of Network Attached Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) systems. The high-performance, high-availability product line debuts with the entry-level Sun StorEdge N8200 filer, which offers capacity of up to 800 GB gigabytes (GB) and the best price-to-performance in its class of NAS products. Higher capacity Sun StorEdge N8000 filer models are in development and planned for release this year. The easy to implement Sun StorEdge N8000 filer product family is ideal for dot-com companies, service providers and workgroups with rapidly expanding storage environments that require high performance, high availability and seamless scalability. The first filer in the product line is the economically priced, entry-level Sun StorEdge N8200 filer, which offers capacity from 200 to 800 GB. Additional Sun StorEdge N8000 filer models planned for release include the Sun StorEdge N8400 filer, which will offer capacity to six terabytes (TB) and the Sun StorEdge N8600 filer, which will scale as high as 10 TB, well beyond the present scalability of the Network Appliance line of filer products. The Sun StorEdge N8200 filer is designed for the needs of the Net economy. Some of the key system features include: * The Sun StorEdge N8200 filer is optimized for low latency and peak file system performance so that it outperforms competitive offerings. * Designed to streamline installation, the preconfigured Set up ahead of time. It implies that the device or software application has been modified to suit the customer or situation. See ghosting server. system can be installed in less than 10 minutes. * The system allows file sharing in heterogeneous environments with NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System and CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. support. * The Sun StorEdge N8200 filer gives customers the flexibility to scale vertically or horizontally - adding more storage to a filer or more filers to a network. This flexible "pay-as-you-grow" architecture enables customers to install storage at an affordable cost and expand capacity quickly and easily as needed as needed prn. See prn order. without impacting data availability. * Browser-based management allows administrators to easily manage and monitor storage. * A mirrored bootdisk provides data protection by ensuring the system's storage won't be brought down in the event of a bootdisk failure. |
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