Sun Microsystems Fuels Revolution for Open Storage, Solaris ZFS; 20%
Growth Posted in Past Quarter
Leading Online Music Discovery Company OurStage Builds Enterprise
Platform Capable of Rapid Expansion and Growth with OpenSolaris(TM),
Solaris ZFS(TM) and Other Advanced Open Storage Technologies from Sun
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) August 20, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today released significant adoption
numbers for the OpenSolaris Storage community that showed over 20%
growth in registered members in just six months. In addition, the
community now boasts of well over 40 projects that range from a peer to
peer distributed storage system to the latest drivers for storage
connectivity. This growing and diverse community support for the Open
Storage eco-system is comprised of Enterprise, Web 2.0 and high
performance computing developers and researchers as well as storage
administrators and architects from around the world. Anyone can join the
Open Storage revolution by going to: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/
Online music discovery company OurStage (www.ourstage.com)
uses these open technologies to prevent vendor lock-in and to help
vendors realize greater choice, flexibility and cost savings.
As the first major vendor to recognize this industry shift to open
platforms, Sun led the charge and added leading storage services and
data protection functions to Solaris ZFS, introduced the world's first
hybrid server and storage platform in the Sun Fire(TM) X4500 family and
created the world's first Open Storage community. The innovative Solaris
ZFS sets Sun apart, enabling developers and enterprise customers to
leverage open source file systems and create pools of data that deliver
better system performance, flexibility and value.
“In just 90 days, we've witnessed significant
participation levels from new OpenSolaris Storage community members and
contributions of exciting storage projects, showing the world that Open
Storage is real and gaining serious steam," said Jim McHugh,
vice-president, Solaris marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc. “By
offering cutting edge companies like OurStage an open source operating
system that includes Solaris ZFS, Sun continues to help build
the community for OpenSolaris while driving adoption of our
industry-leading operating system. No other company is better positioned
to take advantage of this rising tide.”
Open Storage Takes Center Stage with OurStage
OurStage.com gives up-and-coming music artists a chance to have their
work seen and heard while site users pick monthly winners in various
genres for cash, performance gigs, and mentor session prizes. Founded in
2006, the company moved its production storage systems to OpenSolaris to
improve load balancing and I/O performance. OpenSolaris, ZFS and
development applications like Ruby on Rails have provided OurStage with
an easily scalable enterprise solution to accommodate future growth of
the Web site.
In migrating to OpenSolaris and ZFS, OurStage realized significant
benefits: easier overall system administration through improved
management tools, greater scalability and better performance for Web and
application servers.
“Since OpenSolaris was created, tested and
supported by Sun and it provides us with enterprise level quality,
performance and consistency that we need. We have also saved time and
money through this open model and believe the growth of the OpenSolaris
Storage community is good for the industry. Having Sun play such a key
role in its development just furthers its chances for success,”
said David Pascoe, Vice President of Operations, OurStage.
Well Over 40 Open Storage Projects Under Way
With new projects being created almost weekly within the OpenSolaris
Storage community, there are now 40 projects which a developer can
participate that span a wide range of solutions needed by the storage
community. In particular, three interesting community projects are
detailed below.
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Project Celeste: The aim of this project to build a peer-to-peer and
fault-tolerant distributed storage system. Celeste stores data as
files and this stored data is replicated on many different nodes and
allows for the availability of data in the event there is a loss or
absence of some subset of these nodes. Project Celeste originated as
Sun[TM] Labs
research project that investigated techniques for building large
scale, distributed storage systems that work not only in dedicated
data centers, but in open and potentially hostile environments such as
the Internet. To learn more, go to http://opensolaris.org/os/project/celeste
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Project FUSE: FUSE stands for 'File system in User Space' and the aim
of this project is to provide a simple interface to allow
implementation of a fully functional file system in user-space. The
project will enable greater flexibility for code development,
interoperability across multiple operating systems and kernel
recompilation. For more information, please see http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fuse/
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Project Common Array Manager: Disk storage device management software
written in Java that currently ties together Sun's midrange family of
disk storage systems in an administrator friendly way. The software
includes a web application allowing the user to manage their systems
from any browser and a command line utility which provides a facility
for automating and scripting disk management operations and tasks.
With a plug-in architecture adding support for new devices is just a
matter of implementing a plugin using the forthcoming CAM device SDK.
With this design CAM can administer any disk systems whether hardware
or software based (such as Common SCSI Targets (COMSTAR)). For more
information, please see: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/cam
Open Storage Goes Global
Sun also today announced that the OpenSolaris Storage community pages
have been translated into six additional languages: Chinese, French,
Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. The availability of these new
languages allows developers across the world to leverage free and open
storage communities and to create new storage solutions quickly and
inexpensively. Sun plans to continue to add more languages going
forward, to help build the global eco-system for Open Storage.
Join the Open Storage Revolution: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/
Developers can learn more that the Storage Networking Industry
Association (SNIA) Storage Developer Conference http://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2008/,
at which Sun is a platinum sponsor and will host the first-ever
OpenSolaris Developer Summit. For more information see http://opensolaris.org/os/community/storage/Summit08.
For more information, please see www.sun.com/openstorage
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the
Computer(TM)" -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries an on the Web at http://sun.com
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Solaris, Sun Fire, Solaris ZFS,
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the United States and other countries.
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