Sun Open Storage Servers

Open Your Future with Sun's Open Storage

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Storage opens up with Sun's new Open Storage systems. With industry-leading scalability, capacity, and price/performance, the space-efficient systems include the storage editions of the Sun Fire X4140, X4150, X4240, X4250, and X4540 systems, and the next-generation Sun Fire X4540 hybrid system. When combined with OpenSolaris and the Sun Storage J4000 arrays, the systems create a flexible Open Storage infrastructure that scales in performance and capacity while saving on power, space, and cooling.


At a Glance

  • Industry-leading scalability, capacity, and price/performance
  • Sun Fire X4140, X4150, X4240, X4250, and X4540 servers provide the highest disk density of any enterprise server
  • Highest throughput rates of up to 3 GB/sec
  • Scale from 1 TB to 48 TB
  • Choice of configurations to meet every datacenter need
  • Ideal building blocks for Open Storage environments
  • OpenSolaris with ZFS delivers high availability and data protection
  • Twice as compact at half the cost of competing systems
  • Run Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems

Save 20% on Sun Fire x64 Servers

Save 20% and get greater performance and up to twice the density of conventional server and storage array subsystems.


Sun's Open Storage Solutions

Sun Open Storage Initiative

Reduce your reliance on proprietary high-priced storage and save up to 90% on storage costs. Join the Open Storage revolution.



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Spotlight on OpenSolaris

Based on Solaris, the OpenSolaris OS offers free, built-in features that help you build, debug, and deploy new applications faster. You get access to unique Solaris 10 features, including Dynamic Tracing, Solaris Containers, and Predictive Self-Healing. Plus, you also get the ZFS file system for data protection, virtually unlimited scalability, and near-zero administration.