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Sun offers preconfigured SAN

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By Ashlee Vance
Network World, 03/05/01

Looking to bolster its position in the market for storage products, Sun last week announced it is shipping preconfigured storage-area network systems designed to help customers get a SAN up and running more quickly.

The package combines Sun's StorEdge T3 array and its new StorEdge network FC switch series. The product is available for Sun's Solaris operating system and will be released for Windows NT and Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX within three months. IBM's AIX and the Linux operating system will be supported soon thereafter, the company says.

The offering is part of a broader effort by Sun to make inroads against storage specialists such as EMC.

Sun has made a handful of storage-related acquisitions in recent months, most recently acquiring storage software vendor LSC, and bolstering its hardware and software offerings in a bid to gain ground on the rival vendor (www.nwfusion.com, DocFinder: 3236).

Sun will include its StorEdge software with the new SAN offering, including tools for component management, volume management and dynamic multipathing.

The preconfigured SAN system is shipping immediately and is priced from $97,700 for a 327G-byte configuration up to $481,900 for a 5.2-terabyte configuration.

Vance is a correspondent with the IDG News Service's San Francisco bureau.

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