Sun introduces the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems
- The World's FIRST Open Storage Appliance!

In today's economic times, customers are hungry for new thinking and better solutions to infrastructure problems. Nowhere is this more evident than in storage, which continues to grow at a breakneck pace, driven from every direction -- exploding media generation, social networking and regulatory compliance, just to name a few.

Sun has reinvented the Storage Industry with the introduction of the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems, the world's FIRST Open Storage appliances. These appliance solutions, based on breakthrough Sun technologies, Sun's open source software, and supported by a passionate community of developers and ISVs, promise to radically simplify your storage management with remarkable speed, scale and cost savings. A new architectural approach to storage, which combines the strength of OpenSolaris, new software for administrative expression, and complete hardware and software integration, will eliminate enormous amounts of complexity and cost for customers.

These systems have the industry's most comprehensive analytics environment, including innovative new tools to help isolate and resolve issues before they impact business. Installation configuration can be done in less than five minutes. Disk failures become non-events, automatically compensated for while the system continues full-scale operation. Performance observation, adding storage and allocating storage all become simple, straightforward activities. Also included are all of the data management and protocol services expected in a single, simple package - allowing the easy creation of fully-replicated, high-availability deployments, integration with key ISVs, interoperation with Microsoft Windows, etc.

The Sun Storage 7000 is ideal for applications that require high storage capacity, scalability and manageability. Be the first to acquire an open storage system and gain an edge over your competition through:

• Breakthrough Economics:
  Provides up to a 75% reduction in storage costs creating opportunity for additional software investment


• Ease of Administration:
  Simplifies management of expanding storage requirements with built-in GUI and powerful business analytics


• Ease of Scalability:
  Enables transparent storage expansion to easily address data growth


• Enterprise Performance:
  Leverages both SATA and SSD storage technology to deliver high application performance


• Open Platform:
  Provides ISVs the opportunity to expand the core product features and optimize their applications' use of storage resources

Now is the time to demand an alternative way to keep pace with your rapid data growth. The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems - a radically simple way to use storage at a fraction of the cost of traditional systems. Don't delay, gain an edge on your competition and get your system today.

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