StorEdge Newsbyte
Sun adds embedded NAS blade to the Sun StorEdge 9990 system.
Wednesday, Apr. 6, 11:00 PM PT
Furthering its commitment to driving down cost and complexity in the data center, Sun is expanding its portfolio of Network Attached Storage (NAS) solutions with the addition of an embedded NAS blade for the enterprise-class Sun StorEdge(TM) 9990 system. This is the first embedded NAS blade to enable NAS and SAN functionality in the same storage pool under common management. This new feature is being introduced concurrently with yesterday's announcement from Hitachi Data Systems, manufacturer of the Hitachi TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform, the product Sun offers as the Sun StorEdge 9990 system.
"The StorEdge 9990 system's support for heterogeneous storage virtualization and multiple protocols - including SATA, FICON, ESCON, Fibre Channel and NAS - is a major value proposition for customers who wish to implement large-scale storage consolidation projects on a single platform," said James Whitemore, vice president of Marketing, Network Storage, Sun Microsystems. "Having NAS integrated into the StorEdge 9990 not only gives the NAS blade tremendous power, it also gives it massive scalability and great flexibility to address complex data management challenges. For example, storage resources can be switched from SAN to NAS in a matter of seconds."
With the new NAS blade on the StorEdge 9990 system, customers can create tiered storage environments for their file-based data by moving NAS data to any storage system attached to the StorEdge 9990 - including EMC Symmetrix and CLARiiON CX series storage systems, and IBM TotalStorage DS4000 and ESS 2105 models - and integrate management of all SAN and NAS resources, with a single point of management for all data classes.
The SE9990 NAS Blade complements the growing range of NAS products from Sun, including the homegrown Sun StorEdge 5210 and 5310 NAS devices, all designed to give customers the best tools to manage their file-based data.
For more information about this news, please contact:
Ryan Batty
Public Relations
Sun Microsystems
303-588-8623
ryan.batty@sun.com
Monica McCafferty
Alexander Ogilvy PR for Sun
303-634-2609
monica.mccafferty@ogilvypr.com
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