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.

"The storage industry is undergoing a radical transformation that parallels what servers went through a decade ago," said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems. "Solaris OS, ZFS and the work of the OpenSolaris storage community provide rock-solid, enterprise class scalability and value, giving customers a low-cost way to leverage these open architectures without sacrificing quality or reliability."

The initiative also includes new developer tools, recipes and how-to guides that provide insight on a wide variety of developmental issues. These new tools, easy-to-use videos and accompanying online guides provide developers the tools needed to build rock-solid storage systems quickly and efficiently:

• Build a OpenSolaris operating system storage server in 10 minutes or less: this how-to recipe is intended to familiarize developers with the simple commands in Solaris for performing data management tasks, i.e. ZFS, NFS, CIFS, COMSTAR; For more information, please see: http://developers.sun.com/openstorage/articles/opensolaris_storage_server.html

• Simple Steps to building a network-attached storage (NAS) appliance: this how-to recipe describes the steps required to build a NAS device with OpenSolaris operating system quickly and easily. Read about how easy it can be at: http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn/

• Expanded Sun service capabilities are now available to speed open storage application development and help customers safely make the transition to an open storage infrastructure. Check out these new services at: http://www.sun.com/service/openstorage

"Sun has provided a platform for the democratization of the storage industry," said Jason Williams, CTO of DigiTar. "We have found the appropriate level of operating system support we need to run our business through the OpenSolaris storage community, which saves significant time and money. I participate in the community daily and see real business value in the projects that are being created by some of the industry's most important players."

The Open Storage movement, led by Sun and numbering over 3000 members who span many significant projects (such as SVM, UFS, NFS, ZFS etc.), has established one of the fastest growing open source communities in the world. Storage industry leaders like Hitachi Data Systems, Qlogic and Emulex have contributed their software to the OpenSolaris community. Other community participants include storage solutions vendors like Nexenta, which leverages OpenSolaris OS and ZFS innovation to deliver a NAS software solution.

In addition, instructor-training provider LiveAmmo uses the OpenSolaris OS innovation of Project COMSTAR to provide its customers with a low cost fibre channel SAN infrastructure. Companies across the IT landscape are also using OpenSolaris storage technologies within their product offerings, for example database leader MySQL; content management companies Drupal; Confluence and Alfresco; and CRM provider SugarCRM and others.

"The enterprise shift to open storage solutions is now. As a participating member of the OpenSolaris community since 2006, we've leveraged the strengths of the Solaris kernel and the innovation provided by ZFS to offer NexentaStor, a software solution that, for the first time, makes enterprise class storage available to everyone," said Even Powell, CEO of Nexenta.

Learn more about partners at this Neotactics blog on Nexenta: http://neotactics.com/blog/technology/storage-storage-storage

More information is available here. Readers interested in becoming part of the Open Storage effort will find the necessary information here.

Find out about the new storage features administrators are using in OpenSolaris here.

Developers can learn more about the open storage revolution here or experience it first-hand here. [...read more...]

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