The second round (my count) of
OpenStorage announcements are out.
This includes the next rev of
Thumper,
as well as a new storage family -
Sun Storage J4000.
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The successor to Thumper is
SunFire x4500,
faster and bigger than before but still the same storage/server hybrid.
The new storage family combines a Bunch of Disks (BoD) - SATA/SAS - and OpenSolaris/ZFS
(and later Flash Memory),
to deliver
up to 72Gb/sec throughput and up to 192 SATA disks on 16RU at around 1$ per GB.
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Additional reading:
• Sun.Com
Feature Article and the
J4000
Family Overview
• Home pages for the
J4000 Family
and the
Big,
Medium
and
Small
brothers
• Blogs: Overviews by George and
Taylor
Innovating@Sun,
Satish on
MySQL and SugarCRM
• Richard's entry is worth its own bullet;
check it out!
• News:
Computer World,
InfoWorld,
Blocks and Files,
The Register
• Press Release,
SDN Announcement
• OpenStorage and
OpenSolaris Storage Community