Taylor Allis of Sun's Market Strategy & Intelligence unit concedes that his initial skepticism about open storage was misplaced. The combination of open source software with industry-standard hardware for the purpose of creating enterprise-class storage systems is a good idea after all, he now says.
Dianne McAdam of The Clipper Group jousts against the disk proponents who argue that tape is dead, dispelling nine myths on the subject in the course of her argument. Her conclusion? Tape is far from dead and remains a strong contender for space in the data center.
Sun has made yet more code available to the open source community. This time it involves Honeycomb, the fixed-content object storage software of the StorageTek 5800, as reported by Leslie T. O'Neill. Developers can download the binary code from Sun.com and run a complete implementation on their own server or even a laptop.
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