StorEdge Newsbyte
Sun Expands SAN Portfolio with New Switch Availability
Wednesday, Apr. 6, 11:00 PM PT
Today Sun announced an expansion to its broad portfolio of storage area network (SAN) solutions, with the general availability of the Brocade SilkWorm 4100 4 Gigabit per second (4Gb/s) SAN switch. This announcement supports Sun's goal of providing increased scalability and high-performance storage networks for companies of all sizes.
"Sun has an unwavering commitment to addressing the unique data management problems of enterprises, and this extension of our alliance with Brocade enables Sun to provide mid-size enterprises and SAN islands with the highest level of performance and expandability," said James Whitemore, vice president of Marketing for Network Storage, Sun Microsystems. "This switch is a perfect complement to Sun's StorEdge 6000-series of scalable arrays - offering customers incremental growth and investment protection in a package that helps them solve complex storage problems today and tomorrow."
Certified for operation with the Sun StorEdge(TM) family of products, the SilkWorm 4100 switch provides the highest level of performance on the market, coupled with the ability for a customer to start with the number of ports they need, and then add ports as their data management needs grow, to ensure investment protection.
Available in configurations of 16, 24, and 32 Fibre Channel ports, the SilkWorm 4100 provides enterprise-class features in a midrange switch. For mission critical applications it features redundant and hot-swappable power supplies and cooling fans; hot-swappable SFP media; hot code loading and activation; and extensive enterprise-level security, fabric management, and ease-of-use features. The SilkWorm 4100 is an ideal solution for branch offices and departments in enterprises implementing a local or core-to-edge SAN architecture, and as a core for midsized organizations deploying smaller SANs.
By offering the first available 4G SAN switch, Sun Microsystems helps data center managers and storage administrators protect their infrastructure investment by increasing current availability and performance, while at the same time laying a next-generation foundation for managing data throughout its lifecycle.
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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