Sun Microsystems has announced the arrival of a breakthrough storage product line in the StorageTek modular storage family. The Sun StorageTek 6140 and 6540 arrays deliver twice the density and performance of the nearest competitor's products.
Helen Constantinides, server and storage practice head for Sun Microsystems South Africa, explains that these new editions to the range introduce three new features to modular storage customers.
"The first feature meets standards around the Removal of Hazardous Substances (ROHS) standard," she explains. "Sun has also standardised modular storage devices around the four gigabit data throughput rate and provided a common management interface called Control Access Manager that allows for easy management of storage solutions throughout the modular family, including the 6000, 3000 and NAS ranges."
For SME and enterprise customers who need to support business-critical applications, Sun's modular storage line delivers non-disruptive flexibility, complete system availability, lower overall cost and a faster time-to-business benefit. The new modular arrays are also the first products to be released under the combined Sun StorageTek brand, incorporating the best of both companies; heterogeneous service and support expertise from StorageTek and end-to-end system expertise from Sun.
Constantinides says that another great advantage of the range is in virtualisation. "The StorageTek products introduce the concept of virtualised storage solutions, another feature which can be easily managed using the free management software which is included with all devices," she says.
The StorageTek 6140 array is Fiber Channel based and offers four gigabit-per-second transfers, supporting both direct attached and SAN attached storage. The system features a fully redundant architecture with drive intermixing, which allows for the use of either fibre channel or SATA-2 drives with eight ports and a maximum capacity of 112 disk drives.
The StorageTek 6540 array offers similar features, and is focused on large databases and high-performance computing. This unit offers a maximum capacity of 224 disk drives.
"With common management and storage modules, the ability to replicate data across generations and new standards in transfer speeds and reliability, these new arrays allow customers to maximise the use of their critical IT resources and protect investments while lowering overall costs," concludes Constantinides.
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