Completely Extreme.
Extreme consolidation. Extreme capacity. Extreme scalability. Sun's storage solutions give you everything you need for true data center efficiency.
07.May.02--They've got you surrounded.
It started off innocently enough--you kept buying the data center systems
you needed one by one. But now your assorted servers and storage systems are
taking over. Crowding the floor tiles. Pushing up costs and bogging down
performance. Creating an administrative nightmare.
It's time to take control and simplify your life. And that's where Sun
Microsystem's new consolidation solutions come in. Now you can consolidate
data, storage systems, and servers from many sources and multiple vendors
onto one complete, rock-solid platform that delivers extreme levels of
performance and availability. And that means you can:
- Optimize your existing assets--people, data, and systems--while cutting
costs at the same time
- Dramatically improve the efficiency of your operations and the service
levels your end users' experience
- Reduce the complexity of your storage environment while increasing its
capacity, scalability, and manageability
With Sun's new consolidation solutions, you can move from the proprietary,
expensive, piecemeal componentry EMC and IBM offer to something more open,
economical, and complete: the Sun Fire 12K and 15K servers and the Sun
StorEdge platform. You can replace up to four EMC Symmetrix systems with
just one Sun StorEdge 9980 system. You can get up to six times the
bandwidth of comparable EMC and IBM systems and more than twice the
capacity. And you can go beyond just server consolidation or just storage
consolidation, because Sun lets you reap the rewards of server, storage, and
data consolidation.
Now that's a Complete Storage Solution--taken to extremes.
It's all here.
The newest additions to the Sun StorEdge product family give you a complete
picture of how at Sun, we're carrying out our vision of complete storage
solutions for the high-end data center.
- Sun StorEdge 9970 and 9980 Systems: The perfect foundation for a server or
storage consolidation solution that meets the most stringent
mission-critical requirements. Optimized for the Solaris Operating
Environment, these systems are for customers who require the extreme in
worry-free, install-and-forget, nondisruptive performance and availability.
They provide enterprise-class virtualization, heterogeneous connectivity
(including mainframes), and even higher capacity, bandwidth, and
connectivity than our extremely successful Sun StorEdge 9910 and 9960
systems. And their unique switched-fabric nonblocking architecture delivers
higher levels of resiliency, bandwidth, throughput, and I/O bandwidth than
anything offered by EMC or IBM.
- Sun StorEdge L5500 Tape Library: The highest-capacity tape library on the
market, period. With scalability up to 132,000 cartridges with 24 silos
attached, near-linear performance scalability as you add silos, and support
for 9X40 and LTO formats, this system is the ideal data consolidation
platform. There is simply nothing comparable from EMC or IBM.
- Sun StorEdge Performance and Utilization Suites: Sun's next-generation
file system, based on the open, integrated Storage ONE (Open Net
Environment) software management architecture, takes you beyond storage
consolidation to data consolidation. It optimizes the data center
consolidation solution by helping to enable maximum throughput performance, seamless
file sharing, and intelligent backup and recovery--a distinct advantage over
IBM and EMC. While traditional file systems hit a wall at just 1 to 2
terabytes of data, Sun's scales to 252 terabytes, putting it in a league of
its own. Sun's file system can also be performance tuned to match the I/O
needs of the application.
Make your move.
It seems like everyone has been talking about the benefits of consolidation.
Now there's a reason to take some action. Sun's new consolidation solutions
offer you all of the economy and efficiency you expect, plus a few things
EMC and IBM still don't seem to grasp: Completeness. Integration.
Optimization. Openness. Connectivity. Simplicity. Affordability.
Sun is uniquely capable of delivering a complete storage solution for
consolidation because Sun can provide:
- End-to-end IT infrastructure, from the operating system to server and
storage systems to applications to management tools to service and
support--delivering high levels of availability and reliability, a single
source for acquisition and support, and the lowest possible total cost of
ownership (TCO).
- Storage tailored to the Sun server platform, including optimization of the
storage solution for the Solaris Operating Environment and extensive
testing, certification, and tuning--for easier implementation, higher
performance, and greater reliability.
- Storage solutions that solve business problems enterprise-wide, from the
workgroup to the high-end data center, working with legacy systems such as
mainframes and existing business processes for minimal disruption and
maximum leverage of your previous investments.
That's why the move to Sun StorEdge Complete Storage Solutions is underway.
Sun delivers much more than the right products, services, and expertise. Sun helps enable you to build an end-to-end solution that matches service levels to
the application; that provides the lowest possible TCO; and that provides a
secure data continuance environment that covers all areas of availability.
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