Sun announces Solid State Disks on their servers, support in Solaris and ZFS
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Sun Microsystems today announced it is preparing to introduce new Sun solid state disks (SSD) to the market that will give customers greater application performance, massive scale and value through the integration of the Solaris Operating System (OS), Solaris ZFS and other open source technologies. Sun is already shipping Solaris ZFS software optimized for SSD technologies through the OpenSolaris community and is the first major systems vendor to add an end-to-end Flash-based disk product line to its portfolio, leapfrogging competitors and giving customers 3x better performance at one-fifth the energy consumption of traditional spinning disk offerings.
New Flash disks integrated in storage systems and servers will join Sun’s list of products available for free, no-risk trials under Sun’s Try and Buy program at www.sun.com/tryandbuy/. The New Flash arrays reduce energy use and will join Sun’s growing portfolio of Eco Innovation products and services. To download OpenSolaris software or to learn more about the community, go to www.sun.com/openstorage. According to the press release - “Flash-based innovation enables customers to increase application performance and save on energy costs compared to traditional Fibre Channel hard drives”.
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