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sponsored by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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02 Dec 2008
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Published:
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27 Nov 2008
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PDF
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32
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Book
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English
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ABSTRACT:
Open storage uses industry-standard components and open software to build highly scalable, reliable, and affordable enterprise storage systems. Today's digital data, Internet applications, and emerging IT markets require new storage architectures that are more open and flexible, and that offer better IT economics.
Open storage architectures are competing with traditional storage architectures in the IT market, especially in Web 2.0 deployments and increasingly in other, more traditional storage markets. Open storage architectures won't completely replace closed architectures in the near term, but the storage architecture mix in IT datacenters will change over time.
Sun estimates that open storage architectures will make up just under 12% of the market by 2011, fueled by the industry's need for more scalable and economic storage.
Sun offers services that assist IT users with the opportunity to start evaluating open storage architecture strategies and Sun's offerings today-evaluating how an open storage architecture can better support their organizations' business and budgetary goals.
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Authors
Graham Lovell
Sr. Director, Open Storage
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Sun Microsystems Inc.
Graham Lovell leads Sun’s global business growth for the Open Storage initiative. In this role, Lovell is responsible for rapidly growing a new storage business that empowers customers to think differently about how they design, implement and deploy new storage infrastructures based on open source principles and industry standard components. Prior to his current role, Lovell held a leadership position developing Sun’s x64 business, including the highly successful Thumper storage server. Lovell has over 17 years of experience at Sun and previously held leadership positions in Solaris product marketing, Education market development and Public Sector business development across Europe. Lovell has also held marketing and technical positions at several minicomputer companies. He holds a BA in Technology from the British Open University and resides in Austin, Texas with his family.
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Chris Ilg
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