Sun’s New Arrays

February 5, 2009: Sun Microsystems has announced the expansion of its disk storage portfolio, adding two new high-performance, energy efficient disk storage arrays that it claims provide up to three times better price/performance than its peers while enabling workloads to be consolidated within the same data centre footprint.

The company says that its new Sun Storage 6580 and 6780 modular arrays complement a range of server architectures, including Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 systems running its Solaris Operating System, and are the best-performing arrays in their class.

It says that the two arrays are ideal for midrange and high-end enterprise and throughput-intensive workloads that target database and enterprise-email applications, and that they add intuitive, enterprise management tools at no cost through its Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager software.

Overall, Sun claims that the 6780 modular array offers:

• four times better response times at 1/4th the latency;
• three times better price/performance;
• two times better performance;
• 48% more IOPS/drive;
• the best SPC-2 performance of any sub-US$250,000 system.

“Today's enterprise storage manager can't afford to cut corners when it comes to managing data growth and requirements to protect storage investments,” says Jason Schaffer, senior director of Systems product management at Sun. “Customers need storage and archive solutions that take cost out and allow organisations to do more work in the same data centre foot print while realising significant savings in power, cooling and rack space.”

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