Sun introduces Amber Road

Sun hopes to grab a larger share of the data storage systems market with open source software, solid-state drives, and sophisticated management capabilities in its new line of Amber Road storage appliances, says Byte and Switch.

Sun calls these "the world's first open storage" appliances because they use industry-standard components, Open Solaris, and the Zettabyte File System.

"This is the biggest thing to happen to storage in decades," said John Fowler, executive VP of the systems group at Sun.

Raid, a customised storage solution and services provider, has released the X2-IB, a storage system the company hopes will change the traditional storage area network (SAN) storage paradigm, states Market Watch.

This InfiniBand layered SAN, designed for demanding high performance computing environments, is the first product to use Raid's Layered Storage Model. Raid will demonstrate the performance of its base system at Supercomputing '08, which opens 15 November in Austin, Texas.

The X2-IB is capable of sustaining 80GB to 160GB per second on both reads and writes. In addition, the system can scale to over 1 500 hard drives and utilise 128GB of cache. It also features Sata Guard, self-healing, energy conservation and a suite of optional enterprise storage services.

iQstor Networks, a developer of intelligent and integrated storage area network (SAN) solutions, will introduce its next-generation iQ5200 at Supercomputing '08, says Market Watch.

The high-density frontloading storage array has been built to meet the requirements of businesses with demanding high-capacity environments.

The iQ5200 delivers up to 52TB of fault tolerant storage capacity in a 4U array and is a simple-to-deploy, all-inclusive SAN solution with embedded enterprise-class software features. These include volume manager-based virtualisation, snapshot, volume copy, remote replication, storage provisioning and policy-driven capacity expansion.