In this week's blog, Jonathan Schwartz quotes the old saw, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Still up on its feet after the bursting of the dot.com bubble, Sun is among those stronger survivors, taking on the competition and breaking new ground with its innovative solutions.

With the introduction of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, the company has achieved another first, this time with an Open Storage technology that employs Flash Hybrid Storage Pools within Solaris ZFS. Recognizing the potential in this product family, Schwartz says, "Flash memory and open source file systems are about to change the landscape, and upend the industry."

"Storing data on a disk is fairly straightforward. But administering large pools of fully replicated data, diagnosing problems on production systems, seamlessly dealing with capacity planning and disk failures, spanning every protocol known to man - all without draining your budget with antediluvian license keys and proprietary hardware - those are very high value problems to solve," Schwartz writes, adding that these are exactly the problems the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems do solve.

Costing less to operate, requiring a mere five minutes to set up and provision, and free of the traditional problems around volume administration and drive failure, the Sun Storage 7000 line is driven by the industry's most scalable, powerful, open storage microcode. Featured DTrace analytics gives administrators a real-time window through which to view the performance, workloads, and capacity planning decisions of production systems.

Readers will find the complete text of the blog here. [...read more...]

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