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Sun Launches Modular Storage Arrays

Sun Microsystems has introduced a new family of Sun StorageTek modular storage for mid-size-to-enterprise customers who need to support business-critical applications. Sun said the StorageTek modular storage family is designed for customers seeking to support business-critical applications and for Service Providers looking for a cost-effective, easy-to-use enterprise-class platform with the ability to handle large data sets.

The Sun StorageTek 6140 and 6540 modular arrays are the first products to be released under the combined brand name, created in 2005 when Sun acquired StorageTek.

With the release of these new products Sun is now in a better position to compete its rivals Hewlett-Packard and IBM for midrange business customers.

John McArthur, Group Vice President and General Manager at IDC, "The new Sun StorageTek modular storage family provides an open, standards-based system with the scale to support a wide variety of data and storage services for business critical applications."

The StorageTek 6140 array is a ROHS-compliant, 4 gigabits-per-second (Gb/sec) Fibre Channel (FC) array designed for both direct attached and SAN attached storage. The system features a fully redundant architecture with drive intermixing (FC or SATA-2 disk drives), 8x 4 Gb FC ports, 4GB cache, application-oriented management, switched drive connectivity, and a maximum capacity of 112 disk drives.

The StorageTek 6540 array is a ROHS-compliant, 4 GB/sec Fibre Channel (FC) array focused on large databases and high-performance computing. The system features a fully redundant architecture with drive intermixing (FC or SATA-2 disk drives), 8x 4 Gb FC ports, 16 GB cache, application-oriented management, switched drive connectivity, and a maximum capacity of 224 disk drives.

The StorageTek 6140 array starts at USD 25,000 and the StorageTek 6540 array starts at USD 85,000 USD.


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