Sun puts its two cents worth in
Sun puts its two cents worth in
The new family of storage products from Sun are on their way, with a new pricing structure to reflect the company's utility computing push.
During the keynote on the opening morning of the SunNetwork Conference in Shanghai, Mark Canepa, executive vice president of Sun's Network Storage Products Group, previewed its next generation storage platform and announced that beta testing of the new products was in its final stages, with the new Sun StorEdge 6920 platform expected to ship by mid-July 2004.
Canepa indicated that the first release of the system would offer data services sucha s point-in-time, remote replication and data migration, as well as centralised management of business applications such as OLTP, data warehouse and ERP, as well as productivity applications such as email.
"We are signalling our intent to change forever the way storage is architected, implemented and managed. Network services will apply as much to storage as they do to wireless networks today. The first step is to match the class of storage to the application environment to deliver more predictability, flexibility and manageability."
Future versions, which will be available by the end of the year, will include mirroring and other functionality that can be added via a software upgrade without any disruption to the current environment.
As for the new pricing model, Sun intends to offer the new systems for as little as two US cents per megabyte per year, with the proviso that a contract is agreed for a minimum of three years and thirty terabytes of StorEdge units.
"We are driving enterprise computing from current fixed pricing to flexible pricing and management models as part of our broader Information Lifecycle Management strategy," added Canepa.
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