Sun has brought out a number of new storage products,
including a server that signals the company's return to
network-attached storage.
The Storedge 5210 file server is a mid-range NAS appliance, which
Sun claimed can be set up in less than 15 minutes. The 5210 will
come with 4Gbytes of memory and six 146Gbyte hard drives and will
include data snapshotting.
Sun introduced two NAS devices in 2001, the Sun Storedge N8400 and
N8600 servers, but took them off the market a year later. Analysts
said they did not perform as well and were not as easy to use as
NAS devices from Network Appliance and EMC.
Joining the Sun portfolio at its quarterly product update was the
Storedge 6920, a mid-range storage system that competes with
products from IBM and HP.
New too was an integrated archival storage system, similar to EMC's
Centera, called the Sun Content Infrastructure System.
Mark Canepa, Sun executive vice-president, network storage products
group, said, "We meet enterprises' business needs with a system
spanning the server, operating system and storage."