Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/midrange/flexline600/index.xml

Sun StorageTek FlexLine 600 Series Storage Systems

No Longer Orderable

This product has reached end-of-life and is no longer orderable. It is superceded by the next generation Sun StorageTek 6540 Array¹.

Sun StorageTek FlexLine 600 Series storage, systems the next generation capacity-centric platform of choice for ILM solutions, delivers low-touch management, peerless reliability, and the highest efficient capacity available in order to drastically reduce storage costs and mitigate the business risk associated with capturing, protecting and retrieving mission critical data.

600 Series storage systems are disk-based data management solutions that include hardware consisting of controllers and disk arrays, as well as integrated software to manage and control the system. They are designed specifically to provide excellence in data protection and cost-effective online storage for archive and fixed content information.

600 Series storage systems are an extension of Sun's innovative FlexLine product family.

At a Glance

Data Protection	As businesses increase their reliance on mission critical applications and the data that feeds them, continuity and availability are key concerns. Leveraging redundant hardware and software for the purpose of protecting data significantly increases storage management costs. 600 Series storage systems meet customer requirements for a comprehensive data protection strategy by delivering low touch management capabilities and high performance. Cost-effective disk technology is used to relieve pressure on backup windows, improve reliability of backups, reduce administrative overhead, and enable faster recovery in the event of an unplanned outage. As part of a data protection strategy, the 600 Series storage systems are an excellent complement to Sun StorageTek tape drives and libraries.
Archive and Compliance	Given the ever-increasing amount of both structured and unstructured data that businesses must retain, protect, and potentially recall to meet both compliance and fiduciary obligations, ensuring that data is available is no longer an after-thought. An archive solution should leverage both capacity centric disk and tape in that neither storage medium alone can adequately meet all reliability and capacity requirements. 600 Series storage systems is a critical component of any archive and compliance solution as both an online repository for data that must be kept immediately at hand, and as an "archive buffer" for data that will eventually migrate to tape.
Fixed-content storage and distribution	Organizations have a real need to decrease costs and improve the performance of fixed-content archive solutions, such as optical disk and legacy tape, by changing the conventional media price to performance paradigm. The 600 Series storage systems can replace optical disk or older tape solutions to reduce management costs, while improving performance for retrieving e-mail, medical images, video images, security surveillance images and other rich-media content. When implemented with Sun tape solutions, you will enjoy the benefits of a “best practices” tiered storage strategy that provides consistent performance for business applications.

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Links Mentioned on This Page

This page is located at: http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/midrange/flexline600/index.xml

Additional links mentioned are:

Sun StorageTek 6540 Array: http://www.sun.com/storage/disk_systems/midrange/6540/