Open Storage Incarnate
So Monday marked the launch of the Sun Storage 7XXX series. I guess I'm a little slow to blog about it, but what's new? So what is it? This is a product that has taken a lot of the technology of Open Storage an OpenSolaris to create an appliance. What does it do well? It provides simple manageability and kick ass analytics and a few real innovations, for instance the Hybrid Storage Pool. You can test it all out in VMWare from here.
This is all very cool, but how is it possible to get involved and participate in this storage technology? The good news is that this is based fundamentally on the Open Storage technology in OpenSolaris. So if you participate in the Storage Community your technology can be part of future Open Storage appliances.
Take this for a test drive and provide some feedback about what's cool, what's missing and where you'd like to see Open Storage moving in the future.
