Sun's Unified Storage Systems, the Sun Storage 7000 family (aka Amber Road) is now available. The innovative storage family delivers breakthrough diagnostics and troubleshooting capabilities, optimzed performance, one-fourth the energy consumption, installation and configuration in under five minutes and up to 75% cost savings. An introductory video, "Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems," is available that describes the product family.

The Sun Storage 7000 family -- the world's first Open Storage appliances -- features three products in its initial release: Sun Storage 7110, 7210 and 7410 - each is the first in a new and broad family of Unified Storage Systems. In conjunction with the product launch, Sun has also announced a new Open Storage Partner Specialty Program and a series of new professional services to help customers take advantage of Open Storage technologies.

"These new systems radically simplify the way information is managed and can deliver up to 75% cost/performance savings to customers. This is the biggest thing to happen to storage in decades," said John Fowler, executive vice-president, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems, Inc. "The new Sun Storage 7000 family offers a new, simple way to use storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems and has the potential to forever change the way businesses and enterprises store and manage rapidly growing amounts of data - their most important asset."

John Webster, principal IT advisor at Illuminata, says, "The Sun Storage 7000 family may well be in a class by itself. The embedded hardware functionality and list of software add-ons are remarkable for the price of this appliance. This new family has the potential to become the most disruptive thing Sun has ever done in Storage."

Each of these first three appliances in the Open Storage portfolio includes a fully-integrated software stack with support for a variety of operating environments; standard high speed networking and tape connectivity and the industry's most comprehensive management software with powerful analytics tools. These systems are also the only storage systems that fully exploit Flash Hybrid Storage Pools within Solaris ZFS to automatically accelerate and optimize performance while lowering power and cooling requirements.

Specifications of the three appliances are as follows:

• Sun Storage 7110: Ultra compact model with two terabytes (TB) of storage;

• Sun Storage 7210: Mid-range storage featuring up to 48 TB of storage capacity in a highly dense four unit form factor; includes support for write-optimized solid state disks (SSDs) that leverage Sun's unique Flash Hybrid Storage Pool technology;

• Sun Storage 7410: Highly configurable storage system with support for up to a half petabyte (PB) of capacity that includes support for read and write optimized SSDs and Sun's unique Flash Hybrid Storage Pool technology; These systems are also available in clustered configurations for added high availability.

The Amber Road unified storage family features DTrace-based analytics, the industry's most comprehensive technology for analysis and optimization of a storage system. Developed by Sun's "FISHworks" advanced engineering team during the past two years, this technology delivers unprecedented real-time observability of an entire storage system in production. Offering radical insight and simplicity, this unique software solution allows customers to rapidly diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve issues before they impact the business.

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems leverage the Flash Hybrid Storage Pool capabilities within Solaris ZFS and various technologies within Solaris OS and OpenSolaris to create a truly unified appliance. Sun's unique Hybrid Storage Pool technology uses the 128-bit ZFS filesystem to transparently manage DRAM, read-optimized Flash devices and low-cost, low-power disk drives as a single caching hierarchy. The Hybrid Storage Pools deliver greater performance than traditional storage systems at significantly lower power consumption and reduced cost per gigabyte. Hybrid Storage Pools are then used to store data for file and block protocols, like CIFS and NFS, and can deliver a rich set of enterprise data services, including clustering and data replication.

Videos, datasheets and other launch materials on the Amber Road product family are available in an online press kit.

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