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Sun taking on LeftHand with open source IP SAN code
posted on 12 June 2008 11:14
Sun's Comstar open source code transforms an OpenSolaris server and its direct-attached disks into a SAN (storage area network) accessed over iSCSI links. As such it competes with LeftHand Networks whose SAN/iQ product turns x86 servers into SANs.
Sun has passed Comstar code to the OpenSolaris community and it is integrated into the latest Solaris Express Community Edition (SXE), downloadable here.
This is all of a piece with Sun wanting to upset the storage apple cart through making open source storage software available that turns industry-standard servers and storage arrays into effective alternatives to proprietary storage products.
By making its storage IP available in this way Sun hopes that customers of storage products, built by Sun's open source storage community, will buy Sun hardware and services to run their applications.
[Paul Roberts, news editor.]
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