Roger Bitar's Sun BluePrints Online paper, which he entitles "Deploying Hybrid Storage Pools with Sun Flash Technology and the Solaris ZFS File System," provides an overview of Flash technology and discusses its introduction into a new tier of storage infrastructure. Bitar explains how companies can utilize Flash technology and the Solaris ZFS file system to take advantage of the high performance of enterprise solid state drives (SSDs) and the low cost of high-capacity hard disks to create hybrid storage pool solutions that help balance system performance and cost.
The Open Solaris Storage Community is a new initiative by Sun to enable developers better leverage the growing open source communities that are fast changing the economics of the storage IT landscape. The initiative includes the addition of powerful developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities.
In the introduction to his Sun BluePrints Online paper "An Economical Approach to Maximizing Data Availability: Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems," Mike Shapiro writes that the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems meet the industry requirements for reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) that enable the line to preserve customer data and meet enterprise requirements.
In an episode of Innovating@Sun, host Hal Stern, VP Global Systems Engineering, interviews Mike Shapiro, Distinguished Engineer for FISHworks, live from CEC 2008 in Las Vegas, NV to discuss the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems also known as "Amber Road," the industry's first open storage products.
Bryan Cantrill, one of the key developers of DTrace, has posted a blog entry
that tells the story of the origin of the project that has just produced the
new NAS appliances from Sun: the Sun Storage 7110, Sun Storage 7210 and Sun Storage 7410.
Bryan tell hows he and his "longtime partner-in-crime", Mike Shapiro, pitched an idea to Sun's CTO, Grep Papadopoulos. His blog includes a link to the original PDF presentation that was delivered to and accepted by Greg Papadopoulos.
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