Sun Announces SSD Strategy

In case you haven't seen the news Sun Microsystems announced on June 5, 2008 that we will ship our homegrown flash-based storage systems that combine general-purpose hardware, solid-state disks (SSDs), and open-source software.

The new products scheduled to be available in the second half of this year, promise higher read/write performance than traditional arrays while consuming less power than systems based on traditional disk drive technologies.

SSDs that will give customers greater application performance, massive scale and value through the integration of the Solaris Operating System (OS), Solaris ZFS and other open source technologies. Sun is already shipping Solaris ZFS software optimized for SSD technologies through the OpenSolaris community and is the first major systems vendor to add an end-to-end Flash-based disk product line to its portfolio, leapfrogging competitors and giving customers 3x better performance at one-fifth the energy consumption of traditional spinning disk offerings.

New Flash disks integrated in storage systems and servers will join Sun's list of industry-leading products available for free, no-risk trials under Sun's Try and Buy program at www.sun.com/tryandbuy/. Because the New Flash arrays so dramatically reduce energy use, they will join Sun's growing portfolio of Eco Innovation products and services. To download OpenSolaris software or to learn more about the community, go to www.sun.com/openstorage

Posted at 07:47PM Jun 15, 2008 by gwaterson in General  |