SUNW News - (found on the ANCR thread)
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_____Sun Bets On Fibre Channel: A New Storage Strategy____
On April 7, Sun Microsystems' storage division will announce
an ambitious storage architecture based on the ANSI standard
Fibre Channel storage interface. If successful, Sun's Open
Storage Network Model could change the way the way storage
is bought, put together, and managed.
The essential component of Sun's storage model will be a
Fibre Channel switch, similar in concept to a networking
router, which will contribute to data transfer between array
nodes at speeds of 1 Gbyte per second. The fastest storage
architectures available today move data at speeds of 100
Mbytes per second.
In Sun's network model, the hard drives, memory, cache,
controller, software, and hardware are components around the
Fibre Channel switch. Adding capacity involves simply adding
more drives, instead of updating the whole system. "The rest
of the industry looks at Fibre Channel as a faster SCSI
bus," says Robin Harris, Sun's senior product manager for
Fibre Channel products. "We look at it as a high-performance,
high-availability network optimized for storage."
Fibre Channel is the next-generation interface, eventually
replacing SCSI, and is endorsed by most system and storage
vendors, including EMC, IBM, Seagate Software, Hewlett-
Packard, Digital Equipment, and Data General's Clariion storage
unit. On April 7, Sun will announce availability of its
second-generation Fibre Channel-based storage products.
While only a handful of vendors have shipped Fibre Channel-based
products, Sun shipped its first Fibre Channel-based storage
array three years ago.--Martin Garvey |
