Sun Microsystems Extends World's First Open Storage Platform with New
Services and Tools in OpenSolaris Operating System
Sun Signals New Stage in Open Storage Revolution with New Developer
Tools and Expanded Open Storage Services; Moves Further Strengthen One
of World's Fastest Growing Open Source Communities
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON) April 29, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced the addition of powerful
developer tools and expanded professional service capabilities to help
developers better leverage the growing open source communities that are
fast changing the economics of the storage IT landscape. Over 3,000
members and 30+ projects within an active and growing OpenSolaris(TM)
storage community demonstrate a groundswell within the storage industry
for developers and enterprise companies to use open source alternatives
to expensive proprietary storage offerings.
Developers can learn more about the open storage revolution at www.sun.com/openstorage
or experience it first-hand at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/.
Today's storage industry is still largely closed and proprietary, with
most customers locked-in to one particular vendor. Sun has opened up the
storage platform to deliver dramatic increases in performance and
price-performance for customers and, at the same time, created a whole
new world for developers to build new applications and innovation in the
storage world. The use of open platforms allows developers to re-purpose
and re-use hardware through the simple addition of new software –
something not offered by proprietary solutions.
“The storage industry is undergoing a radical
transformation that parallels what servers went through a decade ago,”
said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems Group, Sun
Microsystems. “Solaris OS, ZFS and the work of
the OpenSolaris storage community provide rock-solid, enterprise class
scalability and value, giving customers a low-cost way to leverage these
open architectures without sacrificing quality or reliability.”
Sun has provided the foundation for this industry shift through the
creation of the OpenSolaris storage community. Existing products like
the popular Sun Fire(TM) x4500 server “Thumper”
system – the world's first hybrid
server/storage data server – and the Solaris
ZFS file system capabilities within the Solaris OS help customers reduce
costs by up to 90% through the use of open source software on industry
standard systems.
New Tools from Sun Help Enable Developers to Build Storage Servers in 10
Minutes or Less
Sun today introduced new developer tools, recipes and how-to guides that
provide insight on a wide variety of developmental issues. These new
tools, easy-to-use videos and accompanying online guides provide
developers the tools needed to build rock-solid storage systems quickly
and efficiently:
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Build a OpenSolaris operating system storage server in 10 minutes or
less: this how-to recipe is intended to familiarize developers with
the simple commands in Solaris for performing data management tasks,
i.e. ZFS, NFS, CIFS, COMSTAR; For more information, please see: http://developers.sun.com/openstorage/articles/opensolaris_
storage_server.html
(Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your
Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one
exists.)
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Simple Steps to building a network-attached storage (NAS) appliance:
this how-to recipe describes the steps required to build a NAS device
with OpenSolaris operating system quickly and easily. Read about how
easy it can be at: http://blogs.sun.com/icedawn/
In addition, expanded Sun service capabilities were released to speed
open storage application development and help customers safely make the
transition to an open storage infrastructure. Whether it is an open
storage architectural design from a proprietary system or data migration
need, Sun services brings technical expertise into the growing open
storage arena and will continue to expand open storage capabilities to
address community needs. Check out these new services at: http://www.sun.com/service/openstorage
Sun Customers Save Money Through Open Storage
Gracenote, SearchForce, DigiTar, Joyent and other industry leaders
leverage Sun open storage solutions like the Sun Fire x4500 server
system and Solaris ZFS technology to break through the economic
stranglehold of closed systems. By leveraging Sun services, advanced
developer tools and the community approach to creating and upgrading
storage software and other applications, DigiTar CTO Jason Williams
saves time and, more importantly, significantly cuts costs in his
datacenter – read his blog here: Jason's
Blog (http://blogs.digitar.com/jjww/)
“Sun has provided a platform for the
democratization of the storage industry,”
said Jason Williams, CTO of DigiTar. “We have
found the appropriate level of operating system support we need to run
our business through the OpenSolaris storage community, which saves
significant time and money. I participate in the community daily and see
real business value in the projects that are being created by some of
the industry's most important players.”
"We've scaled clients up to over one billion page views a month using
Joyent Accelerators built on OpenSolaris," said Rod Boothby,
vice-president, Platform Evangelism at Joyent.
Thousands Join Open Storage Community
Comprised of over 3000 members and spanning many significant projects
(such as SVM, UFS, NFS, ZFS etc.), the Open Storage movement led by Sun
has established one of the fastest growing open source communities in
the world. Storage industry leaders like Hitachi Data Systems, Qlogic
and Emulex have contributed their software to the OpenSolaris community.
Other community participants include storage solutions vendors like
Nexenta, which leverages OpenSolaris OS and ZFS innovation to deliver a
NAS software solution. In addition, instructor-training provider
LiveAmmo uses the OpenSolaris OS innovation of Project COMSTAR to
provide its customers with a low cost fibre channel SAN infrastructure.
Companies across the IT landscape are also using OpenSolaris storage
technologies within their product offerings, for example database leader
MySQL(TM); content management companies Drupal; Confluence and Alfresco;
and CRM provider SugarCRM and others.
“The enterprise shift to open storage
solutions is now. As a participating member of the OpenSolaris community
since 2006, we've leveraged the strengths of the Solaris kernel and the
innovation provided by ZFS to offer NexentaStor, a software solution
that, for the first time, makes enterprise class storage available to
everyone,” said Even Powell, CEO of Nexenta. “In
combination with industry standard high performance and high density
storage servers, NexentaStor is saving customers time and money over
legacy storage systems at a time when data is growing faster than legacy
solution architectures and our enterprise customers budgets can address.”
Learn more about partners at this Neotactics blog on Nexenta: http://neotactics.com/blog/technology/storage-storage-storage
For more information, please see www.sun.com/openstorage
Find out how to participate and contribute code into a current
OpenSolaris storage project at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/developer/
Find out about the new storage features administrators are using in
OpenSolaris at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/administrator/
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation,
community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in
more than 100 countries an on the Web at http://sun.com
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, OpenSolaris,
Java , MySQL and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or
registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and
other countries.
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