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Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems

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The Sun Storage 7000 is the ideal storage platform for a wide range of infrastructure solutions. It enables high performance and cost-effective storage, with the flexibility to adapt to your current and future IT requirements.

Database

Sun offers easy to manage, high performing, scalable, and reliable storage for databases.

Databases are the backbone of a company's business operations, and need to be optimized for high performance according to the nature of their data. Transactional databases need a different storage architecture than analytical databases, but often the nature of the data requires a customized architecture. Sun Storage 7000 solutions provide a flexible architecture to accommodate different type of database needs.

Highlights

Hybrid Storage Pool (HSP): Enabled by Flash SSDs, the HSP can be customized according to the behavior of your database. Up to 1.2 TB of SSD can be configured for highly read I/O intensive database environments, allowing huge working sets to be serviced with latencies under 100 ms. And for high write I/O-intensive environments, write-optimized Flash can be used.
DTrace Analytics: Easily optimize your database storage with DTrace Analytics. This tool allows you to understand the exact workload requirements, and can customize your read-optimized and write-optimized SSDs to maximize performance.
Snapshots: Snapshot and clone features enable you to create an unlimited number of databases to support your testing, development and Q&A requirements.
Thin Provisioning: Provides great investment protection and more efficient storage utilization by allocating physical space to the share or LUN as needed.
Increased Datacenter Efficiency: Achieve higher datacenter efficiency with a solution that reduces power and cooling requirements, minimizing energy expenditures.

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Windows Consolidation and Virtualization

Sun offers a complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization product portfolio and a comprehensive set of virtualization service offerings.

Enterprises and Mid-market customers are rapidly adopting virtualization to increase server utilization and reduce infrastructure operational costs. This adoption drives new requirements for a storage infrastructure enabling high performance, data management automation, high availability (HA) & disaster recovery (DR). Sun offers the easiest-to-use, highest- performance, and lowest-cost storage infrastructure, increasing overall datacenter efficiency for solutions such as Windows consolidation using the Sun Storage 7000.

Highlights

NFS and iSCSI Support: Both NFS and iSCSI support is included with the Sun Storage 7000 at no extra charge. NFS enables you to significantly reduce time to deploy and manage storage in a virtual environment.
Performance Tuning With DTrace Analytics: Unprecedented observability with DTrace Analytics to better understand virtual machine and application behavior and tune for maximum performance. Reduce time to provision virtual server/storage environments.
Hybrid Storage Pool (HSP): Enabled by Flash SSDs, the HSP can be customized according to the behavior of your database. Up to 1.2TB of SSD can be configured for highly read I/O intensive database environments, allowing huge working sets to be serviced with latencies under 100ms. And for high write I/O-intensive environments, write-optimized Flash can be used.
Data Services: Snapshots, clones, replication, backup, compression, and other data services required for a successful and more efficient storage implementation in a virtual environment are provided as standard features with the Sun Storage 7000.

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Windows File Services and Infrastructure

Consolidate your Windows storage environment with Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage and enable greater utilization.

New Windows applications, including MS Exchange, SQL Server, and SharePoint, increase complexity. Use the Sun Storage 7000 to replace existing Windows file servers, provide unified file sharing access to many users, and simplify storage management and administration.

Highlights

File Sharing Support: The Sun Storage 7000 provides CIFS for integration in Windows file-sharing environments and includes support for users and groups, AD directory integration, and role-based access control. In addition, it's the only system that provides seamless, transparent file sharing across multiple protocols (CIFS/NFS).
DTrace Analytics: Provides the best observability and visualization in Windows environments, enabling you to easily diagnose issues and optimize your system for peak share performance.
Hybrid Storage Pool (HSP): The HSP enables you to add users and shares simply and cost-effectively, with minimal impact to performance. It also significantly reduces the time for remote file access and collaboration.
Data Services: Increase space efficiencies, improve backup windows, and increase business continuity in Windows environments. The Sun Storage 7000's data services include virtually unlimited snapshots, four levels of compression, and remote replication -- all without added fees or licenses.

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Web Infrastructure and Content Management

Sun Open Storage for the Web helps you optimize your Web application infrastructure, enabling you to achieve breakthrough speed, scalability, and cost savings.

Today's companies are struggling to keep up with an explosion of user-generated content. Internet service providers and Web companies are seeking to break performance bottlenecks and give customers a better user experience while reducing costs. Enterprises seek a more efficient way to manage rich media content. Optimize your Web application infrastructure with the Sun Storage 7000 and achieve breakthrough speed, scalability, and cost savings.

Highlights

Flexible Data Protocol Support: The Sun Storage 7000 includes a flexible set of data protocols for the Web, including NFS, HTTP, FTP, and WebDAV, which allow you to support a wide variety of operating environments and edit and manage files collaboratively on the Web.
DTrace Analytics: Optimize your Web infrastructure with real-time observability from the storage to the network and quickly tune performance to provide users with the best possible experience.
Interoperability: Supports key web stack applications, such as LAMP, SAMP or WAMP
Hybrid Storage Pool (HSP): Enabled by Flash SSDs, the HSP can be customized according to the behavior of your web infrastructure. Up to 1.2TB of SSD can be configured for highly read I/O intensive web environments, allowing huge working sets to be serviced with latencies under 100ms. And for high write I/O-intensive environments, write-optimized Flash can be used.
No Added License Fees: All software features are included with no extra license fees or keys to manage, enabling you to cut costs by up to 75% compared to other systems.

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High Performance Computing

Run faster, and more efficiently with a complete storage portfolio that simplifies data management and cuts costs. Only from Sun, the world largest HPC storage provider.

High Performance Computing is solving problems across multiple industries. But with HPC computing come the challenges of rapid data growth and soaring cost and complexity. Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Solutions for HPC radically simplify the way you manage compute-intensive MCAE and High-Performance Trading applications, providing breakthrough speed, scalability, and cost savings.

Highlights

Hybrid Storage Pool (HSP): Enabled by Flash-based SSDs, the HSP can be customized to accelerate storage response time for HPC applications. Add up to 1.2TB of read-optimized Flash or write-optimized Flash to speed storage response times and keep your HPC application at peak performance.
DTrace Analytics: Allows deep understanding of your HPC compute nodes behavior and of the unified storage system to easily diagnose issues and optimize your system for maximum performance.
Higher Datacenter Efficiency: Minimize energy expenditures in HPC environments using SSDs and lower power and cooling requirements.

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Open Archive

Sun delivers flexible, cost-effective archive solutions that offer long-term retention as well as fast access and retrieval. Reduce risk, contain costs, and retrieve tomorrow the data you archive today.

Today's organizations face business and legal requirements that require efficient management of email messages. This includes preservation of email so it can be accessed at a later date to comply with internal needs or for court-ordered legal discovery. Sun delivers flexible, cost-effective archive solutions that offer long-term retention as well as fast access and retrieval. Reduce risk, contain costs, and retrieve tomorrow the data you archive today with the Sun Storage 7000, the ideal platform for email archiving for all major messaging environments.

Highlights

Application Choice: Select from several archiving applications, certified to work with the Sun Storage 7000, and get an integrated platform for efficient archiving.
Scalability: The Sun Storage 7000 platform offers modular scalability up to 288TB, allowing you to grow as your archiving requirements increase.
Cost-Effective: Sun Storage 7000 solutions leverage Flash-based SSD technology with enterprise-class high-capacity disk drives to create a cost-effective, energy-efficient, high-performance solution.
Performance: The Sun Storage 7000 provides a high performance platform with the flexibility to scale as your capacity and performance needs increase. DTrace Analytics allows you to optimize the system to your applications changing requirements.

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Backup and Data Protection

Restore and recover data quickly and efficiently, even in the case of an unforeseen disaster. Sun provides solutions that protect your data and your budget.

Your data is one of your company's most valued assets. Evolving business and legal requirements make it vitally important to select the right storage infrastructure to protect your data and provide an efficient recovery process that keeps your business running. Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems provide advanced features to reliably protect and to quickly and efficiently recover your data.

Highlights

NDMP Backup: Integrated support with a number of backup applications to back up your data to SCSI or Fibre Channel tape libraries.
Snapshots and Clones: Integrated and standard features add another level of data protection to allow quick recovery of lost files without administrator intervention.
Data Protection: The Sun Storage 7000 supports multiple RAID levels to enable the right data protection that meet your company needs. Automatic file system and end-to-end data and meta-data check-summing ensure data integrity.
High Reliability: With an optional active-active architecture and no single point of failure, the Sun Storage 7000 keeps your system available and maintains business data for daily operations. In addition, Sun's Fault Management Architecture provides comprehensive self-healing capabilities, automatically determining and diagnosing underlying system problems and taking faulty components offline.
Remote Replication: Integrated replication capabilities maintain single or multiple copies of your data in different locations, either on the same campus or anywhere in the world, as your business needs require. The Sun Storage 7000 also supports centralized backup to multiple remote sites while replicating their data to a centralized location.

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Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

If your systems are down, your business is down. Sun provides cost-effective solutions that enable continuous availability for your critical applications and data.

If your systems are down, your business is down. Most businesses today operate 24x7 and need to select the right storage infrastructure to support their mission-critical business functions in the event of a disaster. Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage systems provide Enterprise features that enable continuous availability for your critical applications and data.

Highlights

Replication: Integrated replication capabilities maintain a single or multiple copies of your data in a different location, within the same campus or anywhere in the world, as your business needs require. In case of damage to the primary datacenter, IT administrators can easily bring up one of their remote copies to continue support of their business operations.
Data Compression: Choose from 4 levels of compression according to your business needs. Compression allows faster completion of replication to multiple sites.
High Data Availability: Sun Storage 7000 systems provide a reliable and highly available storage platform that includes active/active architecture with no single point of failure and self-healing capabilities, ensuring maximum data and system uptime.

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Cloud Computing/Storage

Sun's scalable infrastructure solutions for network computing are the foundation for the Sun Cloud, and provide you with easy and affordable access to Sun technologies.