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Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System

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What is the Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System?

The Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System provides a great solution to the growing issue of matching vast and increasing volumes of data needed to be kept by modern companies with storage media that reflects the value of the data to the company. The Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System provides tiered managed storage, from fast on-line disk space to tape storage, all there when you need it, and all powered by Sun's powerful SAM and QFS software.

What's special about Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System?

Too many managed storage solutions are complicated and costly to set up, and difficult for ordinary users to use. In contrast, Sun's solution comes preconfigured and ready to run with all the complicated work already done, resulting in an efficient implementation and faster time to production.

How do I buy the Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System?

The Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System comes in multiple configurations based upon your particular archive needs. You can choose the amount of Tier 1 storage (SAS disk), Tier 2 storage (SATA disk), and Tier 3 (tape) storage that meets your needs Choose more disks for greater access performance or more tape for outstanding economics.

What if I can't get my ideal configuration from the predefined systems?

No problem. While the standard configurations provide an easy to understand and easy to order way to deploy a state-of-the-art cluster file system solution, Sun can design a system to your exact needs, though time to production and cost may increase.

What about architecture and implementation services?

Sun can provide a full range of architecture and implementation services, including qualified project management, to help with your system. Your Sun account manager will be delighted to help with your system and provide support to help you get up and archiving quickly.

This solution sounds great but I've got specific application requirements that need to be managed.

No problem. Sun has a comprehensive range of ISV partners who can provide a complete solution tailored to your needs, whether it's structured or unstructured data, large or small lumps of information, CCTV images, email, medical records data, CDR blocks or just "lots of stuff".

I know my archiving needs are small just now, but over the next three years they will grow exponentially. Can you still help?

Yes. Buy the system you need now and add disk or tape modules as you need them. You can even scale well beyond the predefined configurations by adding Sun's tape libraries and tape drive technology behind the Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System to give you petabytes of storage while still being intelligently managed by SAM and QFS software.

The largest system holds approximately 160 TB of data, I'm going to need a lot more than that.

No problem. We can cluster the preconfigured systems up to an 8-way system that provides 1 petabyte of flat data space. If you will need more than that just contact your local account manager about growing beyond the initial configurations to add multiple petabytes of storage capacity.

I've already got a large Sun StorageTek silo in my datacenter and I really don't need a proliferation of tape devices. What do I do?

You order a "tape-ready" version of the Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System — providing multiple tiers of high performance disk storage, economy disk storage, or both, tailored to your requirements, and utilize your existing tape storage infrastructure for your Tier 3 storage needs. Couldn't be simpler!

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Does the Sun Customer Ready Infinite Archive System really arrive ready to run in my datacenter?

Absolutely! The servers are racked and cabled to a production standard in Sun's factory, all software is installed and the complete system is thoroughly tested before shipping so that it arrives ready to run at the customer. We do recommend a short period of acclimatization but after that the systems will perform "out of the box"!