Thursday, 19 April 2007

Sun Introduces Storage Technologies to OpenSolaris

Sun is donating storage technologies for storage developers within the OpenSolaris community. This donation will enable community members to combine OpenSolaris with hardware from any source to create compelling storage solutions at a fraction of the price of traditional proprietary storage vendors, Sun said. This combination of open source and commodity hardware heralds a new stage in the storage industry, the company added last week.

This donation of core storage technologies running on all major hardware platforms to the OpenSolaris community signals commoditisation of storage industry, Sun said.

Sun aims at repeating for storage software technology the free and open source model that changed the way server and desktop operating systems are developed, evaluated and deployed, the company said.

Sun and its partners are also introducing a number of storage technologies into the OpenSolaris Storage community, the company said.