Sun's NAS Appliance Scales Over 10TB And Completes OSCP Qualification - Sun StorEdge N8400 and N8600 filers - Product Announcement

Computer Technology Review,  June, 2001  

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Sun Microsystems has introduced the Sun StorEdge N8400 and N8600 filers. The Sun StorEdge N8000 filer series has grown from 200GB to over 10TB of usable capacity in a standalone configuration. Sun customers can now add robust NAS storage to their end-to-end Sun infrastructure and achieve a low cost of ownership with single-vendor support across the enterprise.

Sun also announced that the Sun StorEdge N8400 and N8600 filers have successfully completed the Oracle Storage Compatibility Program (OSCP) NAS test suite for Oracle database environments. With OSCP qualification awarded in February to the Sun StorEdge N8200 filer, the entire filer series, has now been qualified for seamless integration with datacenters running Oracle databases.

Sun's highly reliable filers are optimized for peak network file system performance. Hardware RAID 5 and built-in component redundancy help provide data protection and high uptime. In addition, support for NFS and CIFS protocols helps enable customers to consolidate storage and provides file sharing for Solaris and Microsoft Windows clients, as well as other UNIX clients.

"The Sun StorEdge N8400 and N8600 filers present a good opportunity for channel providers to provide a full line of high-performance NAS products for UNIX and Windows NT environments," said Sally Stanton, vice president, general manager, Enterprise Solutions Group, Ingram Micro U.S.

The Sun StorEdge N8000 filers are now shipping.

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