Offerings

Open Storage combines open source software with industry standard hardware to change the way the world stores, accesses, and manages its data. As a startup, deploying a storage solution that can scale up as your business grows is critical. Sun understands your need to keep IT infrastructure management costs down, yet have solutions in place that are fully scalable and allow you to extract maximum value from your accumulated data.

Unified Storage Systems. Storage made simple.

On November 18th, Sun introduced a new line of Open Storage appliances, Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, also known as "Amber Road." Sun Startup Essentials program members can buy these systems right now at up to 70% off list (with Sun Startup Essentials program member prices starting at USD $5,705). At this discount, Amber Road storage can cost less than USD $1.00/GB!

These new systems simplify storage administration while dramatically improving performance, diagnostics and troubleshooting.

A few highlights:

• Installation and configuration in under 5 minutes
• Universal Storage - Includes NFS, iSCSI, CIFS, FTP, HTTP, NDMP, Active Directory, NIS, LDAP and more - all out of the box
• DTrace-based analytics to monitor, diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve problems before they impact your business (and before your users complain!)
• ¼ the power of competing systems (more than 60% lower annual operating costs for power, space, and cooling)
• Significant cost/performance boost over competing systems

Learn More

General Information, Technical Information, Demos & Simulators, Blogs, Other Storage Systems

General Information

• Watch Sun Executive Vice President John Fowler's announcement and learn more about Sun's Simplest Storage Offering -- Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.
• Hybrid Storage Pools is an enabling technology for Amber Road. Only Solaris ZFS has the capability to use flash-SSD drives as read and write cache. While anyone can create Hybrid Storage Pools, Amber Road builds on this to offer enhanced analytics/applications, comprehensive interoperability, and ease of installation in a turn-key solution.
• White Paper: Unified Storage Systems Architecture
• White Paper: Open Storage Adoption
• White Paper: Rethink Storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems
• Unified Storage for HPC
• Why Amber Road Rocks
• InfoWorld's "Stellar" Review
• Sun's New Storage Line Gets "Editor's Choice" from IT PRO
• Reference iWeb
• Reference - SmugMug

Technical Information

• BluePrints
• FAQ
• Space Calculator
• 250K NFS IOPS
• Up to 2GB/sec NFS
• Sun Storage 7000 Management Software
• In-depth Presentation on Storage Analytics, by Bryan Cantrill
• Technical Discussion on Hybrid Storage Pool, by Adam Leventhal
• Troubleshooting Sun Storage (Login Required)

Demos & Simulator

• Simulator (~500MB, requires VMware Player)
• Simulator walk through
• Management Software Demo
• Installation and Usage Videos - 360 view

Blogs

The people at Fishworks write technically detailed blogs, and these are well worth following:

• Adam Leventhal
• Brendan Gregg
• New Economics of Storage

Other Storage Systems

The Sun Startup Essentials program is pleased to offer great prices on Sun StorageTek J4000 family, Sun StorageTek 2500 family, and Sun StorageTek 6140 storage arrays.

How Are We Doing?

The Sun Startup Essentials program was launched in the U.S. in November, 2006 and is now available in many countries around the world. We invite you to give us your feedback by telling us what you like, what you don't, what you'd like to see added or changed, etc. Send your feedback to the Sun Startup Essentials Team. We'll definitely listen.

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