For customers faced with growing volumes of data and an increasingly complex and heterogeneous storage infrastructure, the Sun StorageTek 9990 system provides an application-oriented solution that matches IT to business requirements, improving efficiencies, simplifying management, increasing return in investment (ROI), and reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). The Sun StorageTek 9990 system represents the third generation of the industry-leading Sun StorageTek 9900 series, and it provides the highest levels of performance and availability for large mission-critical environments.

The heart of the Sun StorageTek 9990 system is the Hi-Star crossbar switch, which provides levels of storage consolidation previously unattainable in the industry, and enables the virtualisation of both internal and external heterogeneous storage in a single storage system. This helps to reduce TCO by enabling connections to multiple hosts, and allows for more flexibility in configuring a storage-area network (SAN) infrastructure.

The storage system is easy to operate and control and helps simplify data management. Software is available to support key storage applications typically used in data centre environments, including path management, real-time replication, and remote mirroring for disaster recovery.

• Crossbar switch architecture
• Full fault-tolerance for all critical and redundant components
• Extreme storage consolidation

The Sun StorageTek 9985 is a scaled-down, modular version of the Sun StorageTek 9990 system and shares the same crossbar architecture, microcode, software, and connectivity protocols. The Sun StorageTek 9985 is the right choice for customers who have an existing investment in Sun StorageTek 9900 systems and software, and want a compatible system for new deployments where the full scalability of the Sun StorageTek 9990 is not required. Current StorageTek 9970 customers who are ready for a technology refresh will find the Sun StorageTek 9985 a compelling choice.

• Provides common management and replication for mixed storage systems
• Protects existing storage investments through consolidation
• Creates a foundation for ILM and tiered storage infrastructures
• Enables complex disaster recovery plans
• Helps meet service level agreements with logical partitioning of storage resources
• Helps lower storage costs for enterprises with mainframe applications with native FICON/ESCON connectivity

The Sun StorageTek 9980 system provides extreme levels of performance and capacity needed in large data centre environments. This highly available and massively scalable storage system has a base configuration consisting of two frames: the Control Frame and the Array Frame. The Control Frame contains the cache and switch modules, host and drive interfaces, disk array processors, and the service processor. Up to four Array Frames can be supported, each with redundant power supplies and up to 256 drives. The system's virtualization capabilities enable storage consolidation, which helps to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by enabling connections to multiple hosts and allows for more flexibility in configuring a storage area network (SAN) infrastructure. The storage system is easy to operate and control and helps to simplify data management. Software is available to support key storage applications typically used in data centre environments including path management, real-time replication, and remote mirroring for disaster recovery.

The Sun StorageTek 9970 system provides extreme levels of performance and availability for data centre environments. The system's virtualization capabilities allow for more flexibility in configuring a storage area network (SAN) infrastructure, which helps to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by enabling storage consolidation. The storage system is easy to operate and control and helps to simplify data management. Software is available to support key storage applications typically used in data centre environments including path management, real-time replication, and remote mirroring for disaster recovery.

The Sun StorageTek 6140 array is the perfect blend of performance, high availability, and reliability all in one economical package. In fact, it tested as the best performance and price/performance array in its class. It's the ideal disk array for business continuity requirements in a growing enterprise.

• Faster, 4Gb/s end-to-end infrastructure
• Enterprise-level data protection on a budget
• 2 cache size options: 4GB with 8 host ports or 2GB with 4 host ports
• Multi-tiered storage with FC and SATA disk drives

With up to 112 intermixed drives, the Sun Storage 6180 provides the ability to combine FC, FDE, and SATA disk drives in a tiered storage environment. Plus, the next-generation 8 Gb/sec FC interfaces integrate seamlessly into existing 2 Gb/sec or 4 Gb/sec infrastructures.

• 8 GB controller card
• 4 GB data cache
• Up to 8 host ports
• Up to 112 drives dynamic capacity expansion

Designed with the power to accelerate your enterprise, the Sun Storage 6580 array delivers the increased performance, scalability, and flexibility required for today's virtualized datacenter.

• 8 GB Cache
• 8 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Ports
• Scales to 256 drives
• RAID 6

Designed to help you optimize your business, the Sun Storage 6780 array maximizes CAPEX and OPEX, scales to support more revenue-driven transactions for less, and comes with data-protection capabilities that ensure business continuity.

• 8 or 16 GB Cache
• 8 or 16 4Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Ports
• Scales to 256 drives
• RAID 6

The Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array accelerates database applications with over 1million IOPS in 1RU of space, providing up to 10X (TBD) greater performance and 100X less power and space than traditional disk solutions.

• Over 1 million IOPS
• Up to 2 TB storage capacity
• 1RU form factor
• Scales up to 50M IOPS and 80 TB in a single rack

Designed to meet your ever-increasing storage demands from the workgroup to the enterprise, the Sun StorageTek 2510 array provides simple, reliable, and affordable storage consolidation. With iSCSI connectivity and SAS technology, the StorageTek 2510 is ideal for environments where flexibility, price/performance, and availability are critical.

• 4 host-side 1 Gb/sec iSCSI interfaces
• Dual and single iSCSI RAID controllers
• Scales up to 48 drives
• Expands capacity from 365 GB to 48 TB

Looking for low-cost primary or secondary storage? The affordable Sun StorageTek 2530 Array delivers reliable RAID functionality and the highest availability in its class. The flexible, high-density SAS array is easy to deploy and optimized for rack-intensive environments.

• Scales up to 36 drives
• Three or six 3 Gb/sec SAS host port link speeds
• High density (six drives/rack unit)
• Small footprint for maximum storage density

The affordable Sun StorageTek 2540 array is ideal for primary workgroup and enterprise-class tier 2 storage. The array delivers reliable RAID functionality and the highest availability in its class. The flexible, high-density array is easy to deploy with Fibre Channel and optimized for rack-intensive environments.

• Enterprise-class RAID functionality
• Supports Fibre Channel, SAS, and iSCSI
• High availability, reliability, and density
• Scales up to 36 drives

Now there's an easy and inexpensive way to extend your server-storage capabilities. The Sun Storage J4200 Array offers both high-quality storage that grows with your business and the groundbreaking Solaris ZFS file system. Included as a management tool at no extra charge, Solaris ZFS automates common administrative tasks, protects data from corruption, and provides unlimited scalability.

• Serial-attached SCSI (SAS)
• Three to six 3Gb/s ports per J4200 array
• High density (6 drives per rack unit)
• Supports up to 48 SAS or SATA II disk drives

Looking for high-capacity, low-cost storage to extend your server-storage capabilities? At half the price per gigabyte of the leading competitor, the Sun Storage J4400 Array offers double the storage density, twice the connectivity, and no single point of failure. Plus, you also get the groundbreaking Solaris ZFS file system. Solaris ZFS automates common administrative tasks, protects data from corruption, and provides unlimited scalability.

• Serial-attached SCSI (SAS)
• Three or six 3Gb/s ports per J4400 array
• High density (6 drives per rack unit)
• Supports up to 192 SAS or SATA II disk drives

Looking for unprecedented data integrity and scalability in high-capacity, low-cost storage? At half the price per gigabyte of the leading competitor, the Sun Storage J4500 array offers the highest storage density, extreme scalability, and no single point of failure. Plus, you also get the groundbreaking Solaris ZFS file system.

• Up to 48 Gb/sec throughput
• 48 hot-swappable SATA hard disk drives
• Scales up to 480 drives
• Two x4-wide 3 Gb/sec SAS host/uplink ports (24 Gb/sec bandwidth)
• Two x4-wide 3 Gb/sec SAS expansion ports (24 Gb/sec bandwidth)

This high-end unified storage system offers up to 576TB* raw capacity, and a storage architecture that offers maximum flexibility and provides the best price, performance, and energy consumption in its class. This system is ideal for organizations that have demanding performance requirements and expect rapid growth in file-based information. It enables customers to start small (10TB) and then increase storage capacity, computational power or read/write storage buffers to meet their changing business needs. This configuration use a hybrid storage architecture, combining Read and Write optimized Flash Accelerators (SSDs) with 7200 RPM SATA II drives for high energy efficiency.

• 288TB raw capacity (576TB with free SW update in the near future)
• Up to 600GB of Read Flash Accelerator (SSD), up to 1.2TB for Cluster (600GB per node)
• Write Flash Accelerator options for increased performance with heavy write-oriented applications
• 4 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet

The Sun Storage 7310 Unified Storage System delivers high-availability clustering option and up to 96 TB raw capacity at entry level prices. As part of the Storage 7000 family, it uses the same operating system that provides enterprise-class data services with an easy-to-use management interface that radically simplify the way you manage your storage. And with the Hybrid Storage Pool design, the Storage 7310 enables breakthrough cost savings, speed and scale.

• Up to 96TB raw capacity
• Up to 600GB of Read Flash Accelerator (SSD), up to 1.2TB for Cluster (600GB per node)
• Write Flash Accelerator options for increased performance with heavy write-oriented applications
• Includes NFS, CIFS, HTTP, iSCSI, Replication, Compression, Snapshot/Clone and Restore, Analytics, etc.

The Sun Storage 7210 system is a mid-range configuration that offers up to 44 TB of raw capacity in a 4U system. This system includes write-optimized SDD, so it is ideal for organizations that require high volume throughput for write operations and yet do not require the extensive capacity available in the high-end Sun Storage 7410 system. Such customers can conserve rack space and achieve additional savings in energy consumption by deploying their application storage using the Sun Storage 7210 system. The system utilizes 7200 RPM SATA II drives to achieve high energy efficiency.

• Three capacity offerings, 11.5TB, 22.5TB, 44TB raw capacities
• Write Flash Accelerator (SSD) included with the 22.5TB and 44TB configurations
• 4 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet
• Includes support for NFS, CIFS, HTTP/WebDav, iSCSI

This entry level unified storage appliance is well suited for small to medium size businesses, and departments or remote offices of large corporations. It uses the same software as the high end configurations, and delivers 2 TB or 4.2 TB raw capacity in a 2U package, using 10K RPM SAS drives.

• 2 TB or 4.2 TB raw capacity
• 4 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet
• Includes NFS, CIFS, HTTP, iSCSI, Replication, Compression, Snapshot/Clone and Restore, etc.
• Includes Storage Analytics, advanced tool for debugging and system tuning