Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

"OpenSolaris on an Open Storage platform like the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems is a powerful framework for us, because it liberates us to get the performance and flexibility we need not just the ones we can afford."

"The Sun Storage 7000 software expands this freedom to everyone who doesn't have the time or inclination to build an array themselves. Windows, Linux, even OS X...with The Sun Storage 7000 series, everyone's invited to the Open Storage party."

Jason Williams, COO/CTO, DigiTar

"Sun Open Storage was a perfect fit for our open concept at the heart of EasySpeedy, where the customer has the power. With Open Storage, we are not locked into one product line and proprietary protocols. Sun gives us the ability to build the architecture that suits our needs. With Open Storage we have freedom, rather than being bound hand and foot."

"The management software is important because it enables us to identify potential problems and to solve them. And it is completely automatic. We just follow what is on the screen."

"Thanks to Sun Open Storage, EasySpeedy can cost-effectively scale data storage on demand to meet the needs of customers. What is more, the platform helps minimize power consumption and makes day-to-day management simple."

Peter Lerche, CEO, EasySpeedy

"We were really impressed by the commitment of Sun and Konsulthuset MMI. The technology that they recommended offers us advantages on so many levels, from greater simplicity and reduced energy consumption to reducing the costs associated with storage data services licensing."

Magnus Befwe, Manager of IT Operations and Infrastructure, Elanders

"The breakthrough economics and enterprise performance provided by Sun's Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, combined with ease of use and advanced manageability, brings great innovation to the storage market. This is perfectly aligned with Hi-Stor's commitment to improve the quality and efficiency of our customer's storage management architecture."

Fernando Moreira, CEO & President, Hi-Stor

"As a data protection, retention and discovery software and services provider, we believe the Sun 7000 series delivers a very attractive value proposition with very good high availability characteristics and presents a very simple, straightforward management model. It represents refreshing and original insights into reducing storage complexity and cuts through layers of fossilized storage technology thinking. In the end result we believe it attacks the most expensive and misunderstood element of storage: the operations costs. We look forward to rolling out the 7000 series in our production environment."

David Allen, Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, i365, A Seagate Company

"During our evaluation of the OpenStorage 7410, we found that the combination of read and write biased flash storage and disk outperformed systems with 4-5X the number of spinning disks (and without any read write flash). We are still evaluating these units for use in a customer facing capacity, but we are definitely going to use these units in a data retention and data processing capacity. The expandability and the analytics capabilities offered by the OpenStorage 7410 units are very enticing to us, and may allow us to make some major changes to the architecture of our storage systems."

Joshua Barratt, CTO, Media Temple

"Motionbox offers something unique - a safe, friendly, private online resource for individuals and families to store and share video in vivid HD quality. This naturally demands that we engineer a well tuned, highly responsive storage environment, and we have built just that around the Sun Storage 7410. My team was immediately abuzz when the 7000 series hit the market last fall. This solution was the best deal on high-capacity storage that we'd ever seen. Most important, however, the 7000 series is equally adept at serving both high-traffic videos and the 'long tail' of user-generated content Ð all on a single unit. Because our 7410 cluster comes configured with sizeable amounts of read & write cache, it can effortlessly serve content and support lots of transcoding operations across a wide spectrum of video usage patterns and the full path of a video's lifecycle. Sun unified storage gives us the flexibility to tune and configure multiple instances of the same device for throughput or capacity or whatever our needs may be. It was the ideal solution for us. Thanks, too, to the Sun Startup Essentials program, where I got the opportunity to discuss in-depth with Sun engineers to validate the best storage architecture to meet our intense demands."

Chris Brown, VP Engineering, Motionbox, Inc.

"For a start-up, data integrity and fault recovery are special problems as the staff and budgets are small. The manageability and fault management of Amber Road meet this challenge in a small, dense package. The result for us has been a better solution with less investment in time and technical training."

Mark Niedzielski, Infrastructure Manager, OurStage, Inc

"The software that is the heart of the Sun Storage 7000 surprised us with its power and simplicity. Installation and configuration were a breeze, but the speed with which we could diagnose and resolve storage issues is what really surprised us - it was like nothing we had seen before. This is an exciting addition to the Open Storage offerings we are seeing coming out of Sun."

Luke Stackle, Director of IT, Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise

"We acquired a Sun Storage 7410 as a near line storage solution for video content (content we would use in the next 3-90 days). After testing and optimizing the Sun unified storage solution, we were surprised and impressed to discover that Sun's open solution was interoperable with our existing broadcast infrastructure, and came to find that throughput was superior to what we had seen with our XSAN - even in terms of editing HD video! By prioritizing video applications, we were also able to use the solution with virtualization in our IT operation (something we found impossible to do with XSAN). We had considered a competitive NAS solution, but the cost was 25% greater, and didn't give us the necessary throughput."

"Ultimately, with the exceptional value, capacity, tuning of applications so that it could support two different roles, and Sun's analytics considered, we've retired the XSAN and consolidated all data for both our IT and broadcast infrastructures on Sun unified storage."

Regis Harrison, Director of Production and Technologies, TV5 Canada