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Sun StorageTek 5800 System

Overview

No Longer Orderable

This product has reached end-of-life and is no longer orderable. It is superceded by the next generation Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.

Looking for a cost-effective archiving solution for your fixed-content data? Download the free Sun StorageTek 5800 Open Edition software and see how easily you can cut costs, reduce risks, and avoid vendor lock-in. The Sun StorageTek 5800 system is the first integrated, fixed-content archiving system built using open source software, and is excellent for preservation and digital archiving. The system includes extensive metadata facilities, extreme data protection against data corruption and data loss, and enhanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS).

At a Glance

StorageTek 5800 Open Edition - free digital archiving software
Advanced data integrity, resilience and fault tolerance
Integrated storage, server, and software
Scalable, multi-cell based symmetric, cluster
Embedded, extensible metadata and query capability
Ease of management with single point of control via GUI and CLI interface

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Key Applications

Digitization and preservation
Fixed data access
eScience dataset collaboration
Medical imaging and records
Web harvesting
Federated repositories

Innovating@Sun Podcast

Hal Stern interviews Josh Dobies about open sourcing StorageTek 5800 System, code named Honeycomb.

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Stanford Digital Repository Interview

Mike Keller, Stanford University Librarian and Director of Academic information resources, discusses their use of the Sun StorageTek 5800 system.

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See What the Community is Doing
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Sun StorageTek 5800 Open Edition Software and Developers Kit
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Sun StorageTek 5800 Open Edition Binaries
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