Sun Unified Storage 7000

I was at an internal training all week last week and didn't get a chance to talk about our new Storage products.  I know, I know, Stop laughing.  And yes I did say Storage products.  And no, they are not OEM'ed and YES they do work.

Don't believe me.  Try it out yourself.  Go here and download the VMWare image and run it on your laptop or vmware farm.

Let me know what you think.  I started the VMWare image and it asked me for a password, so I gave it, and it booted up.  I entered the website it gave me, and logged in with root and then the password I gave it.  No issues.  I then added the 15 x2GB drives that it came setup with and created a pool.  After that I added a mount point and shared out an NFS point that I was writing to it on my MAC SWEET.

Then I, started writing data to it to see how that dashboard and anyalitics worked.  It was awesome, as I could see which files were being written to and how long it took just at a glance. 

Don't beleive me, try it for yourself.  It's only a 500MB download.

Did you miss the annoucement?

One great review is here

A quote from the peice, which is my favorite so far:

At the same time, the new capabilities offered with products like
the Sun 7000-series storage appliances are paving the way for new takes
on old ideas, such as video-on-demand. Let's just say that a 48TB 7210
can store quite a few HD movies, and there's no such thing as an
overabundance of scratch space when working with audio and video
projects.

So, in the immortal words of Kent Brockman, I, for one, welcome our new storage overlords.

T

Sun layoffs

Well, since everyone is asking, I thought I would post on this.  The full article is here. 
Bottom line, Sun is right sizing.  We have made a ton of puchases and
need to right size.  I think the below from the article Sum's it up.

Andrew Kotarba, president and CEO of Dewpoint, a Lansing, Mich.-based
solution provider and Sun partner, said that while he hates to see
6,000 people lose their jobs, the Sun partner community agrees it needs
to be done.

"You have a company that still has a healthy revenue run rate,"
Kotarba said. "It needs to get profitable. It gets the pressure off
their back from the earnings report."

Kotarba, too, sees a big opportunity for the channel in the
layoffs. "Sun placed bets on its channel partners to go to market for
them," he said. "With the cuts, they will depend on us more. Dewpoint
is heavily invested in Sun. This is an opportunity for us to do more."

Whether the cuts are enough remains to be seen, however. "Sun
said it will save $700 million to $800 million annually," Kotarba said.
"If there are no other serious downturns, it should be enough. We all
go through this as business owners. We need revenue to be higher than
expenses."

Kotarba said a lot of the questions about Sun's viability are
actually started by competitors, but that Sun's balance sheet and
technology show it to be a very viable company.

"Sun's technology is second to none," he said.
"Some customers ask about it, some don't. We don't have that discussion
with Sun's installed base of customers. They know Sun and its
technology. But when trying to displaceDell (NSDQ: Dell) or HP (NYSE:HPQ) or IBM (NYSE:IBM),
you need firepower. With all the noise in the marketplace, it's hard.
We need the merits of the technology to stand on their own." 

Is SUN going any where, I don't think so.  Though we have to make a profit.  That's what we are trying to do. 

So
that's my thoughts as well.  We have a great Free software stack.  I've
been called by many customers, and in the first breath they ask if I'm
ok, and in the second they ask if we can help them save money cause
they are doing Layoff's as well. :-}

Yes we can:

1. Glass Fish Application Server $7,875 for Platinum Plus support per 4 sockets, not cores.


2. Mysql 5K for Mysql Enterprise per Server


3. Amber Road - Unified Storage - 1-7 Dollars per GB or less

Can we help you save money?  YES WE CAN, just ask us.

 T

Linux Customer Adovating Solaris and zfs

http://blogs.smugmug.com/don/2008/10/10/success-with-opensolaris-zfs-mysql-in-production/

 This is a customer that took OpenSolaris and tested compression and zfs and mysql in production.

 Great read for you Linux Lovers.

 T