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We've gathered white papers, customer success stories, helpful tools, and more to ensure you have the relevant information you need to keep up to speed with the latest Open Storage innovations.



Solution Briefs, White Papers & Brochures


OpenSolaris Storage Community

OpenSolaris Storage Community

Join the community that's collaborating to create new and improved innovations for OpenSolaris storage and data management projects.


Audio Interviews

Hear from community members.

Evan Powell, CEO Nexenta
Learn how Nexenta leverages participation in the OpenSolaris community to deliver a storage software solution that saves customers time and money over proprietary storage systems.
Gregory Perry, CEO LiveAmmo
Learn how LiveAmmo uses OpenSolaris software to build a robust and cost-effective SAN and discover how their participation in the OpenSolaris Storage community saved them money.


Open Storage Multimedia

Video: How to Economically Boost System and Application Performance with NAND Flash 
View this mediacast and learn how to optimize your storage infrastructure using the latest NAND technologies, HDD and DRAM.
Video: The Solid State Storage Revolution 
Andy Bechtolsheim speaking at SNIA SDC, Sept 2008.
Video: Flash Performance in Storage 
Bill Moore, Sun's Chief Engineer, Storage Systems, presents at the Open Storage Summit, Sept 2008
Video: Mike Shapiro and Steve O'Grady 
A men-on-the-street interview in San Francisco.

World's First Open Storage Appliance

View a high-level product overview of the new Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems.

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Product Resources

Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, the industry's first open storage appliances, radically simplify the way you manage your storage.
Sun Storage J4000 Family
Learn more about how the open, affordable and scalable Sun Storage J4000 Family can help you meet your most extreme storage challenges.
Sun Fire X4540 Server
Take advantage of the first server designed for open storage environments and get the highest throughput rate of 3 Gb/sec and 48 TB in a single rack, providing with superior scalability, eco-efficiency, and advanced data backup and restoration capabilities.


Services

Let Sun help you move from a proprietary to an Open Storage environment.


Customer Success Stories

6.cn
Find out how Sun Technology Helped China's Largest Video Sharing Website Support 100 Million Page Views Daily
DigiTar
See how Sun helped DigiTar achieve 10X improvement in price performance.

IN2P3/CNRS
Find out how Sun Fire X4500 storage servers helped IN2P3/CNRS optimize datacenter space and reduce energy consumption.

Internet Brands, Inc.
Learn how Sun helped Internet Brands Inc. consolidate for greatly reduced IT overhead.

Joyent
Read how Joyent Inc. developed a low-cost storage infrastructure with the Sun Fire X4500.

OurStage
Read how OpenSolaris and ZFS have provided OurStage with an easily scalable enterprise solution to accommodate future growth.
Reliance Communications Ltd.
Discover how Reliance achieves 5x faster performance with our Sun Fire X4500 servers and Greenplum database software.

Sapotek
Learn how Sun helped Sapotek cost-efficiently boost performance sixfold.

Tkoon.com.cn
Find out how Tkoon selected the Sun Fire X4500 storage server as its storage platform to provide scalable architecture for it's growing online networking business.

University of Calgary
Read about how Sun helped the University of Calgary create a stable, cost-efficient environment for computational biology.

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