Why Open Storage?

Faced with a challenging economic climate and rapid data growth, now is the time for storage operators and administrators to demand alternative ways to keep pace. Applications such as social networking, high performance computing (HPC), and web-based business applications are driving new requirements for networked storage due to explosive growth of data. To compete in today's global markets, organizations must be able to provide fast access to this data and must be able scale quickly to handle unpredictable spikes in workloads — all while controlling IT costs.

Open atorage systems combine industry standard hardware with open source software, and are supported by a community of thousands who have a passion to create better storage solutions. This powerful combination helps spur innovation and drives better storage economics. Developers can leverage volume servers and disk drives as well as an open storage software stack to speed storage innovation.

Using an Open Storage solution brings all the benefits of open source software:

• Lower cost
• Choice
• Innovation
• No lock-in

Why Sun Open Storage?

• Easy to deploy— Provisioning and management is dramatically simplified through the easy-to-use management interface that takes the guess work out of system installation, configuration, and tuning.
• Easy to scale— Unlike traditional storage architectures, Sun Storage 7000 systems can scale in multiple dimensions to meet specific application needs. As application requirements change, IT managers can choose to:
  • Increase computational power by adding more CPUs and cache;
  • Expand total capacity by adding enterprise class disk drive expansion units; and
  • Increase performance using additional SSD to cache storage reads and/or writes.
• Easy to observe, analyze, and optimize— DTrace Analytics software, which is based on the award winning DTrace facility in the Solaris OS, provides the industry's only comprehensive and intuitive business analytics environment for storage systems.

Find out more

• Overview of Sun Open Storage.