Sun Microsystems Extends Open Storage

By DE Editors

Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) expanded its Open Storage portfolio with the introduction of a new line of economical storage arrays and a highly efficient, high-performance addition to the popular Sun Fire X4500 “Thumper” family.

The new Sun Storage J4000 product line becomes the industry’s most scalable and reliable storage building blocks and offers a 10x savings over traditional arrays when combined with Sun’s servers, OpenSolaris operating system and Solaris ZFS.

Sun also introduced the Sun Fire X4540 storage server version of the award-winning Sun Fire X4500 “Thumper” system that offers the industry’s highest storage density and 30-50 percent in power and cooling savings at one-half the price versus traditional storage. Download free Open Storage software and learn more at Sun.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.