Open Storage
Key Business Drivers
- Manufacturing : Costs reduction – Eco responsibility
- Telecommunications : Outsourcing - Costs reduction – Eco responsibility
- Banking & Finance : Increase banking and financial transactions, Inheritance optimization and mangement - Costs reduction
- Government : Accomplish more work with fewer resources – Eco responsibility
- Retail : Need to manage profitability and control expenses – Eco responsibility
- Media & Entertainment : On-going technological innovation – Costs reduction – Eco responsibility
- Healthcare : Accelerating employers-led initiatives - Costs reduction – Eco resposibility
- Education & Research : Enable anytime, anywhere access - Creating a new form of collaborative education - Costs reduction – Eco resposibility
- Transportation & Travel : Social responsibility - Technology, exposure to other cultures - Collecting and sharing experiences - Business travel online adoption - Green initiatives - Costs reduction
- Energy : Energy education - Carbon emissions reduction – Power consumption reduction - Energy cost reduction
- Pharmaceutical : Enhanced information dissemination - Costs reduction - Eco responsibility
- IT Outsourcing : Resources consolidation - Green sourcing - Costs reduction
- Increase data volume and processing
- Speed up deployment new services
- Green IT
- Infrastructure consolidation
- IT costs reduction
- Open Source componants
- Data management simplification
- OpenStorage Strategy : Freedom of use - More material choice - More suppliers - Larger community users
- Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems Appliance with SATA, SAS and SSD technologies, JBOD Array, Opteron processors
- OpenSolaris
- ZFS Services : Snapshot, Encryption, Replication, Compression, RAID-Z, De-Duplication, Media Management, 1600 PB, Virtual Pools, Dynamic Stripping, Snapshot, Compression embeded, Administration simplified
- Data Protocols: FS v3 and v4, CIFS, ISCSI, HTTP, WebDAV, FTP, NDMP v4
- Data Services : Flash Hybrid Storage Pool, RAID-Z (5), RAID-Z DP (6), Mirroring, Striping, Active-active Clustering, Remote Replication, Antivirus via ICAP Protocol, Snapshots, Clones, Compression, Thin Provisioning, End-to-End Data Integrity, Multi-Path I/O, Fault Management
- Management : DTrace Analytics, Dashboards, Role-Based Access Control, NIS LDAP & AD Alerts, Phone Home, SNMP, Scripting, Upgrade Hardware View, Advanced Networking
- Power consumption
- Return On Investment
- Total Cost of Ownership
- Time to deploy a new service
- Number of Open Source components
- Number of contributors
- Economies made by the OpenSource choice
- Service quality
- OpenStorage Workshop
- Product Deployment Services
- Sun Learning Services
- Sun Managed Services
- Sun Support Services
- Sun Global Financial Services Operation
- Objective : Cost effective network unified storage solution. Reduce administration. Reduce reliance on platform/OS knowledge
- Solution : Sun Storage 7410 Cluster with 2 x J4400. On-board Flash Disk for increased data read performance. Managed Ops contract was uplifted to 3 year 24x7 gold support
- Customer Benefit : Open Source approach. ZFS - today and future capabilities (Pooled storage). Price. User interface. SSD Integration, an easy and inexpensive expansion
