"I've been watching various storage-related projects spring up, and RFE putbacks and have notice (with a grin on my face) how Solaris is being positioned as the most excellent storage OS. A veritable swiss army knife for tossing data to and fro."

 

This was in response to our OpenSolaris Comstar project -- Common Multiprotocol SCSI Target -- a neat piece of  infrastructure that will provide a common framework for iSCSI , Fibre Channel, and iSER target functionality in Solaris.

The word's getting out... OpenSolaris and Solaris make great storage platforms.

We've had good luck using Solaris in a number of our storage offerings -- Thumper (Sun Fire X4500), Honeycomb (STK5800), and the STK Virtual Tape Library Plus. The scalability of Solaris along with our focused storage software investments -- ZFS, (p)NFS, SAM-FS, Shared QFS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel infrastructure -- helps Sun offer innovative storage appliances built out of commodity building blocks from our own server, disk, and tape portfolios.

Solaris runs on many platforms other than Sun (789 non-Sun systems for Solaris 10, 851 non-Sun systems for Solaris Express Developer Edition). And supports over 1565 components such as external storage subsystems, networking cards, and other i/o devices.

Can we help you create a great storage solution? Let us know how we can help...