Maximize ROI, Minimize TCO

Built to accelerate your enterprise, the Sun Storage 6180/6580/6780 arrays improve response times and add value in flexibility, scalability, and investment protection.


Upgrade to the brand new Sun Storage 6180 and grow into the future

For businesses trying to address costly IT problems like lengthy backups, regulatory compliance and explosive data growth, the newest member of the Sun Storage 6000 family of disk arrays, the
Sun Storage 6180, is the perfect tool.

They help ensure data availability so organizations don't miss business opportunities because workers or applications can't access data. The Storage 6180, like the entire Storage 6000 family, is easy to deploy and provision, and requires less training and administration. And when it's time to expand, the Sun Storage 6180 can add incremental capacity with no downtime.

Upgrade to Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 arrays

Designed to optimize your business, Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 arrays let you improve productivity and datacenter economics, scale without sacrifice, and deploy with confidence. Trade in your existing Sun, EMC or IBM midrange array and save up to 20%.



Key Benefits Key Features
  • Ideal for midrange storage consolidation
  • Improves productivity
  • Protects your investment
  • Contains costs
  • Industry-leading performance
  • Ultimate flexibility
  • Robust data protection
  • Scales capacity, performance, throughput
  • Scales up to 256 drives
  • RAID 6 data protection
  • 8, 16, or 32 GB cache
  • 8 or 16 fibre channel host ports

Savings Example

Example: Upgrading to Sun 6780 (vs. EMC CX4) from EMC CX3
Upgrade From: EMC CX3 Array
Upgrade To: Sun StorageTek 6780 vs. EMC CX4
Initial Sun 6780 Investment: $1.3M ($1.2M w/IBB)
Initial EMC CX4 Investment: $1.5M
Future "tray" upgrade to next-gen Sun array: $100K*
Future "forklift" upgrade to next-gen EMC array: $1.6M*
Total cost of Sun storage upgrades over approx. 5 years: $1.3M
Total cost of EMC storage upgrades over approx. 5 years: $3.1M
Bottom Line: Sun storage investment protection delivers cost savings of $1.8M over five years!**

*Estimated future cost, actual costs may vary.
**Illustrative example only. Actual results may vary.

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