Wednesday May 03, 2006 Jeremy Werner's Weblog
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Wednesday May 03, 2006 Honeycomb Press Coverage following Yesterday's Network Computing The press is starting to talk about Honeycomb following our apperence yesterday. Click the publication name headings below to see the full articles. InformationWeek"One other project on the horizon is Honeycomb. While vague on details, Sun describes the offering as the first programmable storage system, incorporating Solaris APIs, extensible metadata and query, and application awareness for divvying parts of applications between the system and the storage appliance. Eventually, Sun expects customers will also be able to run code from within the system, said Fidelma Russo, vice president of product development in the data management group. Honeycomb essentially blurs the line of where an applications lives, enabling pieces that should reside near data to do so, while other pieces reside in storage. With Honeycomb will come a new category of a secondary storage device for optimized throughput, density and cost savings."ComputerWorld"Sun did not formally announce its Honeycomb content-addressed storage device, which it has been demonstrating recently. But Honeycomb is shipping now in limited quantities and will be generally available this quarter, said James Whitemore, vice president and chief marketing officer for Sun’s data management group. The device stores metadata and makes it available through application programming interfaces to applications, which makes it searchable and retrievable. It is similar to hierarchical storage management but allows an application to put it into production as required, he said."NetworkWorld"Further, Sun intends to preview Projects Honeycomb and Thumper. Honeycomb is Sun's content-addressable storage array that consists of processors that can be scaled horizontally to create a low-cost clustered architecture. The Sun StorageTek 5800, aka Honeycomb was demonstrated at the National Association of Broadcasters show two weeks ago. It uses metadata to identify and classify data stored on NAS devices and file servers throughout the network." (2006-05-03 10:48:11.0) Permalink |
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