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Online version March 2009 In this issue » Welcome » Engineer's Corner » Downloads » Buzz » Customer Highlights » Community Spotlight » Viewpoints » Events » Promotions Welcome to Inside Open Storage » Subscribe Now Stay current on all things Sun Open Storage with this new bimonthly newsletter. It's easy-to-scan and filled with recent news, engineering updates, reviews, viewpoints and customer experiences. » To keep it coming, please subscribe. How Open Storage fuels Web 2.0 growth Web 2.0 applications let businesses communicate in new ways, including storage-intensive formats such as videos. Register now for MySQL Conference & Expo Co-presented by Sun Microsystems, MySQL and O'Reilly Media, this annual conference — April 20-23, 2009 at the Santa Clara Convention Center and the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara — brings over 2,000 open source and database enthusiasts together. ENGINEER’S CORNER Back to top Performance implications of the L2ARC Fishworks engineer Brendan Gregg dives into technical details about how the L2ARC (Level 2 cache) feature in the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System was designed, what challenges were overcome, and its positive performance implications. DOWNLOADS Back to top Tools  »  Sun Unified Storage Simulator Videos & Podcasts  »  Sun Storage 7000 training »  Radically simplify your storage »  Shouting in the datacenter »  Mike Shapiro at Open Storage Summit White papers  »  Open Storage adoption »  Revolutionizing the storage status quo »  Rethink storage with Sun Storage 7000 Systems »  Open, simple, and scalable enterprise storage Blueprints  »  Maximizing data availability »  Deploying hybrid storage pools BUZZ Back to top »  “Just about everything you’d want in a server” The InfoWorld test center rates Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System 9.2 out of 10 and says the system’s “combination of 48 drives, SSD log storage, broad protocol support, ZFS, and amazing GUI make for one great flier.” »  Sun Storage 7110 is “storage host with the most” PC PRO hands out a six-star rating (out of six!), citing the fact that “both NAS and IP SAN are supported, performance is very good, and Sun won't be beaten on value.” »  “Momentum developing behind open-source storage movement” Writing for SearchStorage.com , Carolo Sliwa takes a look at the growing open storage trend and the exciting stir created by Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems. »  “Probably the most important Sun storage innovation” The Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System product line announcement rates as one of eWeek’s top 10 storage stories of 2008. CUSTOMER HIGHLIGHTS EVENTS Back to top »  DigiTar cuts costs with Open Storage Open Storage helped DigiTar, a Web 2.0 messaging services innovator, save time and significantly reduce costs in its datacenter. »  How Flash and Open Storage can free you DigiTar’s Jason Williams talks about how Flash and Open Storage can free you from years of vendor domination. »  Monash University expands storage capabilities Monash University needed a cost-effective, network-unified storage solution that combined open-source software with industry-standard hardware — and chose Sun. »  OpenSolaris Storage Summit Check out video replays from the event COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT Back to top »  OpenSolaris Storage Community With 4000 members, this is one of the fastest growing open source communities in the world. »  OpenSolaris Community This community represents a wide variety of developers, administrators, instructors and students around the world. »  Stay up to date about OpenSolaris Subscribe to the OpenSolaris Ignite newsletter and contribute ideas. »  Flash-Open Storage BluePrints Community One-stop resource center featuring blogs, storage papers, and latest developments. Fishworks Engineering Team »  The Observation Deck »  Brendan Gregg's blog »  Adam Leventhal’s blog »  Mike Shapiro’s blog VIEWPOINTS Back to top iWeb blog post on choosing Sun Storage 7410 For iWeb customers “this means they will have access to a storage server with larger capacity.” Trend spotting in 2009 Marc Hamilton makes his predictions for the year. More Than Meets the Eye This Sun blog is devoted to open storage. Storage Stop Get downloads, video, news on open storage. Testing Sun’s Open Storage platform “Sun’s new Open Storage platform is really sweet,” blogs Sun customer Rick Yazwinski of OpenSRS. The appliance for storage Sun VP Bob Porras gives his thoughts on the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System family. PROMOTIONS RESOURCES Back to top Volume promotion for Open Storage Change your Storage with Sun Storage 7000 System Try and Buy Try Our Products Free for 60 Days and then Buy at 20 - 40% Off. 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