Sun Open Storage

• Optimizing Database Environments with Sun Open Storage:
  Now there's an easy way to boost database application performance, increase management efficiencies, and reduce costs. Optimizing Databases With Sun Open Storage delivers superior performance at up to 75% less than competitive solutions. The Hybrid Storage Pools optimize your databases and applications and reduce I/O bottlenecks, while unique analytics enable proactive troubleshooting, resource provisioning, and capacity planning. Plus, the solution supports multiple Oracle databases and instances, including Oracle RAC, 9i, 10g, and 11g.

HPC is solving problems everywhere today. But along with HPC cluster computing, come the challenges of rapid data growth and soaring cost and complexity. Sun 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. The solutions utilize Solaris ZFS, DTrace Analytics, and the Hybrid Storage Pool to deliver high-performance, file-based throughput for your most demanding, compute-intensive, applications.

Open Storage and HPC Solutions

• Sun Unified Storage Solution for MCAE:
  Accelerate MCAE workflow, simplify distributed computing and storage, run more simulations in less time with greater accuracy, and bring products to market faster and at lower cost.
• Sun Unified Storage Solution for High-Performance Trading:
  Improve trading performance compared to costly proprietary solutions and get the speed, throughput, and scalability you need for massively parallel real-time processing of shared stock trading data.

As Internet service providers and Web companies seek to reduce bottlenecks and provide a better user experience, enterprises search for a more efficient way to manage rich media content. Sun Open Storage for the Web simplifies the way you manage Web applications, providing up to 75% in cost savings over traditional storage solutions and improving performance, manageability, scalability, and eco-efficiency.

Open Storage and Web Infrastructure Solutions

• Infrastructure for Rich Media Solution:
  Relentless data growth is challenging companies offering rich media services on the Web, including photos, videos, and social networking content. The savings, simplicity, and speed of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems enable you to provide your customers with performance, low cost and security.
• Sun Systems for MySQL Backup Solution:
  The Sun Systems for MySQL Backup Solution integrates Sun's Open Storage systems, OpenSolaris, Solaris ZFS, and the MySQL Enterprise subscription service, providing maximum price/performance and peace of mind when running Zmanda ZRM for MySQL Enterprise–the leading open-source MySQL backup solution on the market–for data protection.

The value of information increases dramatically when you can easily find it, share it, and reuse it. The Sun Open Archive Framework provides a cost-effective, scalable, infrastructure that future-proofs your archives, sustains the value of your information over time, and offers a broad range of open solutions to meet your needs now and in the future. Based on open source software and industry-standard hardware, the Sun Open Archive Framework eliminates your dependence on proprietary systems, reduces storage, power, and space costs, and requires minimal IT staff compared to competitive offerings.

Open Storage and Sun Open Archive Framework Solutions

• Sun Open Archive for Email Solution:
  Responding to email discovery requests and meeting regulatory mandates is quick and cost-effective. Plus, you can choose your software partner, giving you freedom of choice and eliminating vendor lock-in. Together with our partners, Symantec, CommVault, and Open Text, we've engineered a solution that lets you choose the software application that's best for you. With the Sun Open Archive for Email Solution, you get a flexible, cost-effective archive that offers long-term retention as well as fast access and retrieval.
• Sun Open Archive for Digital Repositories Solution:
  Archive Solution for Digital Repositories helps you unlock its value, regardless of upgrades or staffing changes. Whether you're saving digital information for ongoing collaborative use or for long-term preservation, the data must survive technology upgrades and staff turnovers. The Sun Open Archive for Digital Repositories Solution ensures that the digital information can be preserved and accessed.
• Sun Open Archive for NAS Solution:
  Projects come and go, but your digital assets continue to grow, straining storage resources and driving up costs associated with the acquisition, upgrade, and day-to-day expense of operating several common NAS appliances. Depending on the size of your implementation, you can save 50% or more over three years on datacenter expenditures. And since the Sun Open Archive for NAS Solution is open, future technology refreshes won't disrupt your archive.
• Sun Open Archive for Virtual Research Environments and BioScience Solution:
  The value of research multiplies when data can be easily found, shared, and re-used by others. Research generates vast amounts of varied data, from text-based client consent forms to genomic mapping and sequencing data to medical images, including digital photographs taken during surgical procedures. All of this data today is stored in databases on computer systems. Sun Open Archive Solutions help researchers and scientists find what they need when they need it.
• Sun and Symantec Open Archive Solution:
  Based on open standards, open APIs, and industry-standard components, the Sun and Symantec Open Archive Solution for Mid-market provides an efficient, flexible, cost-effective archive that offers long-term retention as well as fast access and retrieval.

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 that enables high performance, data management automation, high availability, and disaster recovery. Utilizing the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, Sun offers the easiest-to-use, highest-performance, and lowest-cost storage infrastructure, increasing overall datacenter efficiency for solutions such as Windows consolidation.

Open Storage and Enterprise Datacenter Efficiency Solutions

• Windows Server Consolidation with Sun Storage 7000 and VMware Solution:
  Consolidating Windows servers? Sun and VMware offer a simplified, high-performance, lower-cost storage infrastructure using the NFS interface on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. Together, Sun and VMware offer the best Windows server virtualization solution on NFS, improving performance and efficiency, and reducing your overall cost of ownership.