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. The topics covered in the interview are:

• Enterprise flash systems combined with game-changing analytics
• Opensolaris as the OS
• Ease of system and storage administration
• FISHworks, ZFS, and DRAM
• SSD as extension of memory heirarchy
• Storage as it relates to privacy and security
• Deviation of sysadmin tasks
• Looking forward: built in encryption
• Virtual system administration
• Enterprise storage system in a laptop

Enterprise SSDs based on Flash technology provide tens of thousands of IOPs, compared to hundreds of IOPs for hard disk drives, unlocking new levels of performance. The Sun Storage 7000 incorporates SSDs along with additional features that provide write-cache protection in case of a power loss.

Solaris ZFS, the Amber Road file system, seamlessly integrates SSDs and HDDs and optimizes access to different media types. The file system transparently manages data placement, directing frequently-used data to fast SSDs and less-frequently used data to slower, less expensive HDDs.

The system's hybrid architecture gives the speed and performance you needed to shatter many I/O bottlenecks with no administrator intervention. In fact, Hybrid Storage Pools with SSDs can improve I/O performance by 100x compared to mechanical disk drives.

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Innovating@Sun Radio Interview: 15min.

Solution Brief: Enterprise Flash Technology

BluePrint: Deploying Hybrid Storage Pools with Flash and Solaris ZFS [...read more...]

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