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Sun Storage Open Archive Framework

Benefits

At a Glance Layers of Archive

The Sun Open Archive Framework evolves over time, providing long-term sustainability and enabling you to future-proof your digital assets. You can reliably archive data, and eliminate your dependence on proprietary systems, and reduce storage costs. Plus, it requires minimal IT staff compared to competitive offerings.

Data Protection and Integrity

The preservation software layer provides all the necessary guarantees required for archived information. Automatic error detection and repair of data corruption using OpenSolaris ZFS ensure "19 nines" data integrity and reduce downtime by up to 52%. The industry's simplest, most comprehensive analytics environment quickly identifies bottlenecks and policy-based data migration across tiered storage provides multiple copies of data. Plus, encryption tools protect against unauthorized access. These data protection features are included with no additional license fees.

Scale As Your Archive Grows

The Sun Open Archive Framework lets you scale your archive to meet growing business needs. You can scale capacity and performance easily and non-disruptively, and dynamically use tape to achieve multi-petabyte scale. You can also optimize performance by implementing multiple tiers of technology, including solid-state disk, Fibre Channel disk, SATA disk, and tape.

A Choice of Solutions From Sun and its Partners

The Sun Open Archive Framework provides solutions that fit your current requirements and allows for future growth and technology migration. You can choose from a vast selection of open source and commercial archiving applications tailored for your specific industry or business needs. Sun and its partners offer the broadest choice of archive disk storage and cloud storage, as well as direct attached, network attached, tape, and virtual tape libraries. Plus, you get the archive application support and ease of integration testing with reference architectures.

Future Proof Your Archive

The Sun Open Archive Framework infrastructure future-proofs your archives, building intelligence into your data through metadata indexing and tagging to sustain its value and make it available for future access. You can manage and migrate data over time to utilize the most current hardware and software technologies, and mitigate risk from technology and vendor obsolescence.

Reduce Costs

With the Sun Open Archive Framework, you can reduce your reliance on high-priced systems, saving up to 90% on storage costs and using up to 70% less energy and 50% less space. Simplified administration reduces management costs and single-instance storage using deduplication greatly reduces the costs of storing and transferring data. Plus, Flash solid-state drives (SSDs) dramatically increase performance while cutting power consumption by up to 80% compared to spinning disks. Just what you need to reduce space and energy costs and improve scalability.

Breakthrough Economics

Based on Sun Open Storage, the Sun Open Archive Framework uses open source software and industry-standard components to deliver breakthrough economics. It frees you from vendor lock-in and provides the flexibility to add customer-driven features. The open framework enables developers to use free and open source OpenSolaris to build new applications, mitigates the risks and costs of proprietary architectures, and reduces proprietary API lock-in. Plus, it deploys in Solaris, Linux, Microsoft, and VMware environments, and is backed by Sun and the support of the OpenSolaris Storage Community.